Bad Habit

Resumen del libro

Told in an irresistible, heartrending voice, Bad Habit takes us deep into the lives of the residents of a godforsaken Madrid neighbourhood ironically named after a holy saint. An unnamed young trans woman grows up in a working-class suburb that has no place for her. She discovers community and kinship in downtown Madrid, amid a dazzling party scene animated by charming junkies, glamorous pop divas, and fallen angels. With each step she takes forward in the city, she finds herself confronted by an antagonism she does not yet know how to counter.

In this thrilling and yet often frightening place each decision can have the highest of stakes and yet she knows that only she can forge a path forward to the life she truly wants to live. Blistering and compassionate, Bad Habit by Alana S. Portero is translated by Mara Faye Lethem, and deftly illuminates the ties between gender and class, the search for identity, and the power of chosen family. Shimmering in its lyrical beauty and vivid in its realism, Bad Habit is a searing, mesmerising story of self-realisation that speaks to the outsider in all of us.

I urge you to read Bad Habit' PEDRO ALMODOVAR'
The most talked-about debut of the year' TIME OUT SPAIN'
The book that everyone is reading'NEW YORK TIMES

Biografía del autor

p strong Alana S. Portero /strong nació en Madrid en 1978. Es medievalista, escritora, guionista y directora escénica. Escribe sobre cultura, feminismo y realidad LGTBIQ+ para medios como em eldiario.es /em , em SModa /em , em Vogue /em , em Público /em y em Abril /em . Su primera novela, em La mala costumbre /em (Seix Barral, 2023), se ha convertido en un fenómeno editorial dentro y fuera de nuestras fronteras, merecedora de los premios Todostuslibros de las librerías independientes (CEGAL), Cálamo, Vanity Fair, em Time Out Cultura /em a la mejor obra, Dulce Chacón, Almudena Grandes y, en Francia, el Prix Litteraire Méditerranée. De igual forma, fue uno de los mejores libros del año para em Babelia /em , em Abril /em , em El Cultural /em , em El Periódico /em , em El Español /em , em ARA /em , RTVE y em Forbes /em , entre otros medios, y está siendo traducida a dieciocho lenguas. También poeta, presentamos ahora la edición definitiva de strong em La habitación de las ahogadas /em /strong (Harpo Libros, 2017; La Bella Varsovia, 2025), revisada por la autora.<br>