BAD HABIT – ALANA S PORTERO
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โI urge you to read Bad Habit’ PEDRO ALMODรVAR’Had me hooked from the first page โฆ Savour every word’ DUA LIPAย โThe book that everyone is readingโย NEW YORK TIMES’Sublime’ รDOUARD LOUISย A SERVICE95 BOOK CLUB PICKย Beautifully written and told in an irresistible voice, Bad Habit is a powerfully moving coming-of-age novel following a young trans woman in 1980s Madrid.
An unnamed young trans woman grows up in a working-class suburb that has no place for her. She discovers community and kinship in downtown Madrid, amid a dazzling party scene animated by charming junkies, glamorous pop divas, and fallen angels. With each step she takes forward in the city, she finds herself confronted by an antagonism she does not yet know how to counter. In this thrilling and yet often frightening place each decision can have the highest of stakes and yet she knows that only she can forge a path forward to the life she truly wants to live.
Beautiful and deeply moving, Bad Habit by Alana S Portero is translated by Mara Faye Lethem, and deftly illuminates the search for identity and the power of chosen family. Bad Habit is an unforgettable story of self-realisation that speaks to the outsider in all of us.
‘A work of deep humilityโย GUARDIANโAn engulfing novelโ AVNI DOSHIโBelieve the hype!’ OKECHUKWU NZELUโA revelation โฆ made me weep more than onceโ SABA SAMSโInfused with camp humour, pathos and the spirit of resilienceโ AMELIA ABRAHAMSย ‘Affecting and evocative’
OBSERVER’Painful yet unquestionably hopeful’ NICOLA DINANโPorteroโs elegant storytelling catches a celestial lightโ ELOGHOSA OSUNDEโLeaves you stunnedโ TRAVIS ALABANZAย โObliges the reader to hold back (or unleash) their feelings chapter after chapterโย VOGUE SPAINย โThe most talked-about debut of the yearโย TIME OUT SPAIN
Classifications: Of specific Gay & Lesbian interest,
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945),
Fiction: special features
ISBN : 9780008663339
Published : N/A
Author : Alana S. Portero
Size : 128 x 198 x 18 (mm)
Weight : N/A
2 in stock

