Let's discuss some good mystery books!
If you love mysteries, this book club is the place for you! We meet every month to discuss the chosen selection, with maybe a little catching up on the side.
August's book selection is Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice by Cristina Rivera Garza.
In the early hours of July 16, 1990, Liliana Rivera Garza was murdered by her abusive ex-boyfriend. A life full of 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 their grief and guilt in private, without any hope for justice.
Using her remarkable talents as a scholar, novelist, and poet, Cristina Rivera Garza returns to Mexico after decades of living in the United States to collect and curate evidence—handwritten letters, police reports, school notebooks, architectural blueprints—in order to render and understand a life beyond the crime itself. Tracing the full arc of their childhood and adolescence in central Mexico, through the painful and confusing years after Liliana's death, Rivera Garza confronts the trauma of losing her sister, and examines from multiple angles how this tragedy continues to shape who she is—and what she fights for—today.
Books can be checked out at the Laman Library circulation desk (ask a staff member) or online on the Libby app. For more information, contact Megan at mhines@nlrlibrary.org. No registration required.
AGE GROUP: | Ages 19+: Adults |
EVENT TYPE: | Book/Discussion Club |
TAGS: | Discussion | BookClub |
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