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Published by Random House · Society and social sciences · ISBN 9788439739456

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In 1990 Liliana Rivera Garza, a 20-year-old architecture student, was murdered by her ex-boyfriend in Mexico. Thirty years later her older sister, the writer Cristina Rivera Garza, opens the boxes holding her letters, notes and diaries, interviews family and friends and tries to obtain the police file in order to piece her life back together. The title comes from a line by Albert Camus that Liliana held close.

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Who it's for
For readers of memoir and nonfiction who want to think about intimate partner violence and femicide in Mexico through one particular life. Worth knowing: it includes long, barely edited interviews and letters, which The New York Times found demanding for the reader.
Why people still read it
It won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Memoir or Autobiography, was shortlisted in 2023 for the National Book Award in nonfiction, and received, among others, the 2021 Xavier Villaurrutia Prize and the 2022 Rodolfo Walsh Prize.

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