Saw this last week & I was thrilled Rivera Garza’s book is up for an award— it’s an inspiring & important story. 💜🙏
“When she finally finds the file and opens it, voices rise from its pages—the voices of Liliana, her parents, her friends, and the friends of her murderer. They are testimonies not to Liliana’s death but to her life.”
“Liliana’s Invincible Summer” is on this year’s Longlist for the National Book Award in Nonfiction. It is one of several works that mine documents from the past in order to forge new meaning.”
The 2023 National Book Awards Longlist: Nonfiction