Cristina Rivera Garza is a Mexican author and academic. Her book Grieving was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism. She received her PhD in History in 1995 and an honoris causa PhD in Humane Letters in 2012, both from the University of Houston, where she founded the first PhD in Creative Writing in Spanish. Her awards include the Roger Caillois Award for Latin American Literature (2013) and the Anna Seghers-Preis (2005). She is the only two-time winner of the International Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize (2001; 2009), and has received a MacArthur Foundation 'Genius' fellowship. She lives in the United States.

An astonishing work of creative non-fiction from one of Mexico's greatest contemporary writers, that reignites the brilliant spark of a young woman erased and illuminates an epidemic of femicide in Mexico

Rivera Garza is a renowned author and academic, and the recipient of a 2020 MacArthur Fellowship. She has won six of Mexico's highest literary awards, and her work has been praised by writers including Jorge Volpi, who named her his favourite writer, and Carlos Fuentes

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR MEMOIRA 2023 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTA NEW YORK TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, TIME AND NEW YORKER BOOK OF THE YEAR'Meticulously written and deeply moving . . . A triumph' JACKIE KAY'Absorbing and poetic' ECONOMIST'Full of tenderness and beauty' MARIANA ENRIQUEZFrom one of Mexico's greatest contemporary writers, an astonishing work of non-fiction that illuminates an epidemic of femicide in Mexico through the death of one woman.I seek justice, I finally said. I seek justice for my sister . . . Sometimes it takes twenty-nine years to say it out loud, to say it out loud on a phone call with a lawyer at the General Attorney's office: I seek justice.On the dawn of 16 July 1990, Liliana Rivera Garza, Cristina Rivera Garza's sister, was murdered by her ex-boyfriend and subsumed into Mexico's dark and relentless history of femicide.She was a twenty-year-old architecture student who 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 made a definitive decision: at the height of her winter she had discovered that, as Albert Camus had said, there was an invincible summer in her. She would leave him behind. She would start a new life. She would do a master's degree and a doctorate; she would travel to London. But his decision was that she would not have a life without him.Returning to Mexico after decades of living in the United States, Cristina Rivera Garza collects and curates evidence - handwritten letters, police reports, school notebooks, voice recordings and architectural blueprints - to defy a pattern of increasingly normalised, gendered violence and understand the life lost. What she finds is Liliana: her sister's voice crossing time and, like that of so many disappeared and outraged women in Mexico, demanding justice.