Book description
This isn't just a memoir-it's a quiet revolution whispered into your ear. Cristina Rivera Garza's Liliana's Invincible Summer, narrated with devastating grace, carries the weight of a sister's 29-year search for justice, and it lands like a single, perfect note in your soul. You'll hear the raw ache in Rivera Garza's voice as she recounts the day her sister Liliana, a 20-year-old architecture student, was murdered in 1990-a moment that shattered a life and became part of Mexico's brutal history of femicide. But this isn't just about loss; it's about Liliana's fierce, unbroken summer-the moment she decided to leave her abusive ex-boyfriend and claim her future. "I seek justice," Rivera Garza finally says, not to a court, but to the void, after decades of silence.
The audiobook transforms this into something intimate and urgent. Rivera Garza's narration isn't performative; it's tender, like she's holding her sister's letters in her hands as she reads them aloud. You hear the weight of every artifact she gathered-the school notebooks, the police reports, the blueprints of the life Liliana never lived. As Jackie Kay called it, it's "meticulously written and deeply moving," and the audio format makes it feel like a conversation you weren't meant to overhear, but needed to hear. The Economist praised it as "absorbing and poetic," and you'll hear that poetry in the cadence: how she describes Liliana discovering "an invincible summer" in her, even as darkness closed in.
This isn't just a story about one woman's death. It's a testament to the millions erased by gendered violence, and Rivera Garza's voice becomes a bridge across time. She doesn't just tell you about Liliana's life; she lets you hear her-her laughter in a letter, her determination in a note, her voice "crossing time" like a whisper demanding to be heard. Mariana Enriquez called it "full of tenderness and beauty," and that's the heart of it: the love radiating through grief, the refusal to let Liliana be forgotten.
To hear this on audio is to feel the story breathe. You'll pause the playback just to absorb a sentence, the way Rivera Garza lingers on the phrase "she would travel to London," a dream stolen but never erased. It's the kind of book that doesn't just inform-it changes how you listen to the world. A triumph not because it answers everything, but because it insists on the question: Who gets to live? And then, finally, it answers with a voice that refuses to be silenced. This is the kind of memoir that stays with you long after the last word fades-a quiet, unbreakable summer in the dark.
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Playing a wide variety of audio formats
Works on all devices with iOS 13 and newer
Huge amount of features for a small price
Frequent updates to add new features and improve existing ones
Advanced playback controls
Live sound processing
Changing the timbre of the reader's voice and noise reduction
Translated into more than 20 languages
If you love listening to fiction audiobooks, ListenBook has features to make the process easier.
Edit book data: title, author, cover
Use equalizer to make the sound comfortable for you
Adjust the playback speed
Enjoy dark and light app themes
Supported formats: MP3, M4B, AWB, FLAC, OGG audio files and many more (must be DRM free)
Auto-Bookmarks make it easy to find your place
AirPlay support allows redirection of audio output.
VoiceOver support
Dark mode for night owls
Convenient bookmarking system helps you mark the most important places.
Unlimited bookmarks for each audiobook
Put your own cover on the wager
Share your audiobook with friends
Lock-screen control
Customise app with extensive options
Sleep timer with shake to reset, set custom notification sounds, and a few unique options
Auto rewind depending on paused time, customize rewind times to your liking
Removing background noise from recordings made in classrooms and meetings
Changing the timbre of the reader's voice for a better listening experience