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Cristina Rivera Garza

Biography

Cristina Rivera Garza

Cristina Rivera Garza is the award-winning author of THE TAIGA SYNDROME and THE ILIAC CREST, among many other books. A recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship and the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize, Rivera Garza is the M. D. Anderson Distinguished Professor in Hispanic Studies, and director of the PhD program in creative writing in Spanish at the University of Houston.

Cristina Rivera Garza

Books by Cristina Rivera Garza

Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice
by Cristina Rivera Garza - Memoir, Nonfiction

October 18, 2019. Cristina Rivera Garza travels from her home in Texas to Mexico City, in search of an old, unresolved criminal file. “My name is Cristina Rivera Garza,” she writes in her request to the attorney general, “and I am writing to you as a relative of Liliana Rivera Garza, who was murdered on July 16, 1990.” It’s been 29 years. Twenty-nine years, three months and two days since Liliana was murdered by an abusive ex-boyfriend. Inspired by feminist movements across the world and enraged by the global epidemic of femicide and intimate partner violence, Cristina embarks on a path toward justice. LILIANA'S INVINCIBLE SUMMER is the account --- and the outcome --- of that quest.