Say Her Name

From an award-winning novelist and internationally celebrated journalist, a story that scales the heights of love and plumbs the depths of loss.

Celebrated novelist Francisco Goldman married a beautiful young writer named Aura Estrada in a romantic Mexican hacienda in the summer of 2005. The month before their second anniversary, during a long-awaited holiday, Aura died from injuries sustained in a swimming accident.

Francisco, blamed for Aura's death by her family, and blaming himself, wanted to die too. But instead he wrote Say Her Name. Here, Goldman gives us the novel of Aura, and of their life together.

Drawing us into her childhood and university days in Mexico City with her fiercely protective mother to her studies at Columbia University, and then her newlywed years with Francisco in New York City and abroad, Say Her Name breathes Aura back to life - a spritely, witty, free-spirited dynamo, luminous and exuberant.

Say Her Name is a love story, a bold inquiry into destiny and accountability, and a tribute to Aura - who she was and who she would have been.