If you love mysteries\, this book club is the place for you! We meet every month to discuss the chosen selection\, w ith maybe a little catching up on the side.
\nAugust's book selectio n is Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice b y Cristina Rivera Garza.
\nIn the early hours of July 16\, 1990\, Li liana Rivera Garza was murdered by her abusive ex-boyfriend. A life full o f promise and hope\, cut tragically short\, Liliana's story instead became subsumed into Mexico's dark and relentless history of domestic violence. With Liliana's case file abandoned by a corrupt criminal justice system\, her family\, including her older sister Cristina\, was forced to process t heir grief and guilt in private\, without any hope for justice.
\nUs ing her remarkable talents as a scholar\, novelist\, and poet\, Cristina R ivera Garza returns to Mexico after decades of living in the United States to collect and curate evidence&mdash\;handwritten letters\, police report s\, school notebooks\, architectural blueprints&mdash\;in order to render and understand a life beyond the crime itself. Tracing the full arc of the ir childhood and adolescence in central Mexico\, through the painful and c onfusing years after Liliana's death\, Rivera Garza confronts the trauma o f losing her sister\, and examines from multiple angles how this tragedy c ontinues to shape who she is&mdash\;and what she fights for&mdash\;today.< /p>\n
\nBooks can be checked out at the Laman Library circulation desk (ask a staff member) or online on the Libby app. For more informatio n\, contact Megan at mhines@nlrlibr ary.org. No registration required.
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