On July 16, 1990, Liliana was found dead in her apartment. She was killed by an ex-boyfriend, who had stalked her for many years. By the time an arrest warrant was filed months later, he was nowhere to be found. Nearly 30 years later, her older sister, the writer Cristina Rivera Garza, set out to recover a record of her sister’s life — and death. The trail, such as it was, had mostly evaporated, but Garza was determined to capture her sister’s last months and days.
Throughout her journals, Liliana wrote extensively about her desire for freedom: “I am a seeker. I want to try new things; maybe more pain and loneliness but I think it would be worth it.” She longed for independence and often pondered why it was so difficult to simply exist as she was. Liliana’s ultimate goal was to belong to herself, to be the architect of her own life. Relationships with men were fraught because many of them resented this core part of her identity.
How many women will read about Liliana and see themselves? How many of us will shudder thinking of a dangerous partner from the past? How many of us will realize that we’re still on this Earth by sheer luck? Life has always been so precarious for women. It’s difficult to find a time in history in which we’ve been safe. As Garza writes, “The only difference between my sister and me is that I never came across a murderer.
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