Alana S. Portero’s debut novel (Seix Barral, 2023) and an editorial phenomenon: 17 languages (in English, Bad Habit), and the Todos tus libros, Cálamo, Vanity Fair and Dulce Chacón prizes.
The story: the coming of age of a working-class trans girl, trapped in a body she doesn’t know how to inhabit, from a childhood in San Blas devastated by heroin in the 1980s to the clandestine nights of central Madrid in the 90s.