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Alana S Portero Bad Habit (Hardback)
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- Book Title
- Bad Habit : a Novel
- Publication Name
- Bad Habit
- Title
- Bad Habit
- Translator
- Mara Faye Lethem
- Contributor
- Mara Faye Lethem (Translated by)
- Format
- Hardcover
- ISBN-10
- 006333612X
- EAN
- 9780063336124
- ISBN
- 9780063336124
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Genre
- Fiction
- Release Year
- 2024
- Release Date
- 23/04/2024
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.8 in
- Item Length
- 8.2 in
- Item Width
- 5.5 in
- Item Weight
- 10.6 Oz
- Publication Year
- 2024
- Topic
- Lgbt / General
- Number of Pages
- 240 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
006333612X
ISBN-13
9780063336124
eBay Product ID (ePID)
20061614484
Product Key Features
Book Title
Bad Habit : a Novel
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2024
Topic
Lgbt / General
Genre
Fiction
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
10.6 Oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
5.5 in
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Reviews
"I urge you, read Alana S. Portero's Bad Habit to fully grasp the degree of adversity, pain, and danger endured by those growing-up trans." -- Pedro Almodóvar, Two-time Academy Award-Winning Filmmaker "Alana S. Portero's Bad Habit is a tender, evocative coming of age story about learning to live authentically. Full of loving affection and quiet betrayals, this novel captures the challenges inherent to finding autonomy and queer community. Bad Habit is a powerful book about growing up trans." -- Isle McElroy, author of People Collide "At once brutal, tender, and vulnerable, Bad Habit is told in gorgeous, poignant vignettes that paint a portrait of a trans girl's coming of age in working-class Madrid. Once I started, I couldn't put it down. Let's be real--I would follow Portero's charming and resilient narrator anywhere. There is violence, yes, but there is also beauty, warmth, and care. Full of unforgettable characters, mothers, and connections, Portero has written a masterpiece, an ode, a life-giving story of trans affirmation. This book is everything and more." -- Marisa Crane, author of I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself "A novel that intertwines LGTBIQ+ activism with humour, beauty with pain, the dissociation of the interior with exterior world ... The most talked-about debut of the year." -- Time Out Spain, "I urge you, read Alana S. Portero's Bad Habit to fully grasp the degree of adversity, pain, and danger endured for virtue of growing-up trans." -- Pedro Almodóvar
Synopsis
"Portero's book -- like the best books that feature trans characters -- shows us that a 'trans novel' can actually be anything it wants to be." - The New York Times "I urge you, read Alana S. Portero's Bad Habit to fully grasp the degree of adversity, pain, and danger endured by those growing up trans." -Pedro Almodóvar Combining the raw realism and vulnerability of Shuggie Bain and Detransition, Baby with the poignant sensibility of Pedro Almodóvar, a staggering coming-of-age novel deeply rooted in the struggles of a trans woman growing up in Madrid. Anchored by the voice of its sweet and defiant narrator, 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. With her first novel, Alana S. Portero strikingly underscores the ties between gender and class, the search for identity, and the power of sisterhood and community. Gentle but blistering, Bad Habit is a mesmerizing story of self-realization that speaks to the outsider in all of us. Translated from the Spanish by Mara Faye Lethem, "[Bad Habit] shows us that a 'trans novel' can actually be anything it wants to be." -The New York Times "A novel that could very well serve as a surrogate mother for future children who grow up lonely and trans." -The Washington Post "I urge you, read Alana S. Portero's Bad Habit to fully grasp the degree of adversity, pain, and danger endured by those growing up trans." -Pedro Almodóvar Combining the raw realism and vulnerability of Shuggie Bain and Detransition, Baby with the poignant sensibility of Pedro Almodóvar, a staggering coming-of-age novel deeply rooted in the struggles of a trans woman growing up in Madrid. Anchored by the voice of its sweet and defiant narrator, 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. With her first novel, Alana S. Portero strikingly underscores the ties between gender and class, the search for identity, and the power of sisterhood and community. Gentle but blistering, Bad Habit is a mesmerizing story of self-realization that speaks to the outsider in all of us. Translated from the Spanish by Mara Faye Lethem
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