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

Liliana Rivera Garza was many things — an insatiable reader and writer, a talented swimmer, a movie lover, a devoted friend, a budding architect and an absolute feminist who loved smoking cigarettes. She dreamed of traveling and collecting experiences on her own. When she was 20, she took the first steps toward fulfilling that dream, moving to Azcapotzalco, Mexico City, where she began studying architecture at Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana. On July 16, 1990, Liliana was found dead in her apartment. She was killed by an ex-boyfriend, who had stalked her for many years. By the time an arrest warrant was filed months later, he was nowhere to be found. Nearly 30 years later, her older sister, the writer Cristina Rivera Garza, set out to recover a record of her sister’s life — and death. The trail, such as it was, had mostly evaporated, but Garza was determined to capture her sister’s last months and days. This is not so much a crime novel, because we know from the beginning who killed Liliana--it is more of a memoir by the author, written to her sister and to women who are killed by men who stalk them in every corner of the globe.