Say Her Name: A Novel

In 2005, Francisco Goldman married Aura Estrada, a gifted young writer. The couple was deeply in love, but Aura died in a tragic accident while on vacation, only a month before their second anniversary. In Say Her Name, Goldman transforms his experience of love and grief into a fictionalized account of their brief marriage. He draws on everything he can gather about Aura—her writings, her childhood and university years in Mexico City, her time at Columbia University, and their shared life together in New York City and travels through Europe—to create a vivid portrait of who she was. The novel serves as a tribute to Aura Estrada and explores the depth of their relationship through Goldman's attempt to keep her memory alive.