katrintheresa on Nostr: Had no idea she would be a nominee when I read the book this summer. 📖🙏 ...

Had no idea she would be a nominee when I read the book this summer. 📖🙏

https://lithub.com/meet-the-2023-national-book-award-finalists/

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This book is heartbreakingly excellent. Because her sister wrote & kept letters including drafts & copies from the 80’s/90’s— Cristina Rivera Garza was able to use these documents —29 years after her sister’s death to rediscover her sister through language & write this book.

“We can only fight against what we can name.” ~Cristina Rivera Garza 


Anyway— this article was shared today— paired #reading https://wordswithoutborders.org/read/article/2023-08/femicider-cristina-rivera-garza/