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Bad habit : a novel / Alana S. Portero ; translated from the Spanish by Mara Faye Lethem.

Portero, Alana, (author.). Lethem, Mara, (translator.).

Summary:

"Bad Habit casts a trans woman’s trying youth as a heartfelt odyssey. Raised in an animated yet impoverished blue-collar neighborhood, Alana S. Portero’s protagonist struggles to find her place. As the city around her changes -- the heroin epidemic that ravages Madrid through the '80s and '90s, rallying calls of worker solidarity and the pulsing beat of the city's night scene -- she becomes increasingly detached from the world and, most crucially, herself. Yet through her eyes, the streets and people of Madrid are illuminated by a poetry absent from everyday life. And by this guiding light she begins to plot her own course, from Margarita, the local trans woman whose unspoken kinship both captivates and frightens her, to Jay, her first love and source of an inevitable heartbreak, to the irrepressible diva Caramel. As she forges ahead, she sets her compass to a personal north star: endeavoring to find herself. But with each step forward, she is confronted by a violence she doesn’t yet know how to counter; in this exciting, often terrifying, world each choice is truly a matter of life and death." --publisher's website

Record details

ISBN: 9780063336124
ISBN: 006333612X
Physical Description: ix, 224 pages ; 22 cm
Edition: First Harpervia hardcover.
Publisher: New York, NY : HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2024.
Copyright: ©2024

Content descriptions

General Note:	"Originally published as La mala costumbre in Spain in 2023 by Seix Barral." --title page verso.
Language Note:	In English translation from the Spanish.