Powerful and Personal Narrative Nonfiction about Life & Death in Mexico
Two genre-defying, eye-opening works of narrative nonfiction by two Latina professors and authors. Garcia’s The Way that Leads Among the Lost combines research and anthropological fieldwork with the author’s personal history in this examination of the little-known world of anexos, community drug rehab centers in Mexico that serve as a refuge from violent drug wars, but often employ violent tactics of their own. 29 years after her sister’s murder, Rivera Garza travels to Mexico City in search of unresolved answers, which she documents in her Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir, Liliana's Invincible Summer. Through letters, police reports, notebooks, and interviews, Rivera Garza reveals the extent of the normalized gender-based violence that took her sister’s life while confronting her own trauma.
FESTIVAL FRIENDS SESSION
FESTIVAL FRIENDS SESSION
- Books: The Way That Leads Among the Lost: Life, Death, and Hope in Mexico City's Anexos, Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice
- Book Type: Non Fiction
- Authors: Angela Garcia, Cristina Rivera Garza
- Moderator: Monica Maldonado Williams
- Book Signing: 11:30 AM at Main Signing Tent