Author: Alana S. Portero
- Fiction
- Seix Barral
- ISBN: 9788432242120
- Release Date: 05-03-2023
-Reviewed by: Lecturalia
The heartbreaking life journey of a girl trapped in a body she doesn't know how to inhabit. A dazzling novel unlike anything you've ever read. An international literary phenomenon before its publication.
Narrated in a unique and heartbreaking first-person voice, ‘La mala costumbre’ traces the adolescence of a girl trapped in a body she doesn't know how to inhabit, trying to understand herself and the world she lives in, from her childhood in a working-class family in the heroin-ravaged San Blas neighborhood of the 1980s to the clandestine nights in downtown Madrid of the 1990s. As in a corrupted version of the hero's journey, junkies, pop divas and fallen angels accompany her on a vital journey in which, in the end, it will be other women who help her overcome the violence she encounters at every turn.
‘La mala costumbre’ is a raw and fierce novel, but also poetic and moving, in which extremes touch to show us why resentment and rage against the system are completely valid to survive in a society that does not accept those who are different.
