Bad Habit— Alana S. Portero

Narrated from a unique and heartbreaking first-person perspective, La mala costumbre follows the adolescence of a girl trapped in a body she doesn't know how to inhabit, who tries to understand herself and the world she lives in, from her childhood in a working-class family in the San Blas neighborhood, ravaged by heroin in the 1980s, to clandestine nights in downtown Madrid in the 1990s. As in a bastardized version of the hero's journey, junkies, pop divas, and fallen angels accompany her on a vital journey where, in the end, other women will 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 meet to show us why resentment and rage against the system are completely valid for surviving in a society that doesn't accept those who are different.

Owner of a unique creative universe where theater, classical history, and activism coexist, Alana S. Portero debuts in fiction with this dazzling novel that has become an international publishing phenomenon before its publication.

ISBN: 9786073915397