El invencible verano de Liliana

On July 16, 1990, Liliana Rivera Garza, my sister, was the victim of a femicide. She was a 20-year-old girl, an architecture student. She had been trying for years to end her relationship with a high school boyfriend who insisted on not letting her go. A few weeks before the tragedy, Liliana finally made a final decision: in the depths of winter she had discovered that in her, as Albert Camus had said, there was an invincible summer. She would leave him behind. She would start a new life. She would do a master's degree and then a doctorate; she would travel to London. His decision was that she would not have a life without him. Just a year ago I decided to open the boxes where we put my sister's belongings. Her voice crossed time and, like that of so many missing and outraged women in Mexico, she demanded justice. Liliana's invincible summer is an excavation in the life of a bright and audacious woman who lacked, like ourselves, like everyone else, the language necessary to identify, denounce and fight against the sexist violence and intimate partner terrorism that characterizes so many patriarchal relationships. This book is to celebrate her passage through the earth and to tell her that, of course, we are going to throw it away. We are going to throw it away at the patriarchy.