Bad Habit
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Dua Lipa's September Book Club Pick!
Included in The Guardian's Best Translated Fiction of 2024
""[Bad Habit] shows us that a 'trans novel' can actually be anything it wants to be."" –New York Times
""A novel that could very well serve as a surrogate mother for future children who grow up lonely and trans."" –Washington Post
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
©2024 Alana S. Portero and Mara Faye Lethem (P)2024 HarperCollins PublishersRelacionado con este tema
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Historia3 out of 5 stars 25
The Coin’s narrator is a wealthy Palestinian woman with impeccable style and meticulous hygiene. And yet the ideal self, the ideal life, remains just out of reach: her inheritance is inaccessible, her homeland exists only in her memory, and her attempt to thrive in America seems doomed from the start. In New York, she strives to put down roots. She teaches at a school for underprivileged boys, where her eccentric methods cross boundaries. She befriends a homeless swindler, and the two participate in an intercontinental scheme reselling Birkin bags.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Interview of author on podcast piqued interest
- De amybarnard en 08-03-24
De: Yasmin Zaher
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The Emperor of Gladness
- A Novel
- De: Ocean Vuong
- Narrado por: James Aaron Oh
- Duración: 12 h
- Versión completa
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General0 out of 5 stars 0
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Narración:0 out of 5 stars 0
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Historia0 out of 5 stars 0
One late summer evening in the post-industrial town of East Gladness, Connecticut, nineteen-year-old Hai stands on the edge of a bridge in pelting rain, ready to jump, when he hears someone shout across the river. The voice belongs to Grazina, an elderly widow succumbing to dementia, who convinces him to take another path. Bereft and out of options, he quickly becomes her caretaker. Over the course of the year, the unlikely pair develops a life-altering bond, one built on empathy, spiritual reckoning, and heartbreak.
De: Ocean Vuong
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Monstrilio
- De: Gerardo Sámano Córdova
- Narrado por: Victoria Villarreal, Johnny Rey Diaz
- Duración: 7 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 255
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 230
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 230
Grieving mother Magos cuts out a piece of her deceased eleven-year-old son Santiago's lung. Acting on fierce maternal instinct and the dubious logic of an old folktale, she nurtures the lung until it gains sentience, growing into the carnivorous little Monstrilio she keeps hidden within the walls of her family's decaying Mexico City estate. Eventually, Monstrilio begins to resemble the Santiago he once was, but his innate impulses—though curbed by his biological and chosen family's communal care—threaten to destroy this fragile second chance at life.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not exactly what I expected….
- De kisa en 10-06-23
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Swimming in the Dark
- A Novel
- De: Tomasz Jedrowski
- Narrado por: Will Watt
- Duración: 6 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,224
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 1,091
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,084
Set in early 1980s Poland against the violent decline of communism, a tender and passionate story of first love between two young men who eventually find themselves on opposite sides of the political divide - a stunningly poetic and heartrending literary debut for fans of Andre Aciman, Garth Greenwell, and Alan Hollinghurst.
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5 out of 5 stars
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One of the Best Contemporary Novels Ever
- De Jeffrey veals en 05-11-20
De: Tomasz Jedrowski
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There There
- A Novel
- De: Tommy Orange
- Narrado por: Darrell Dennis, Shaun Taylor-Corbett, Alma Ceurvo, y otros
- Duración: 8 h
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 7,743
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 6,779
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 6,755
Jacquie Red Feather is newly sober and trying to make it back to the family she left behind in shame. Dene Oxendene is pulling his life back together after his uncle's death and has come to work at the powwow to honor his uncle's memory. Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield has come to watch her nephew Orvil, who has taught himself traditional Indian dance through YouTube videos and will perform in public for the very first time. There will be glorious communion and a spectacle of sacred tradition and pageantry. And there will be sacrifice, and heroism, and loss.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Highly recommend.
- De Rachel S en 07-09-18
De: Tommy Orange
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Mina's Matchbox
- A Novel
- De: Yoko Ogawa, Stephen B. Snyder - translator
- Narrado por: Nanako Mizushima
- Duración: 8 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 31
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 30
In the spring of 1972, twelve-year-old Tomoko leaves her mother behind in Tokyo and boards a train alone for Ashiya, a coastal town in Japan, to stay with her aunt’s family. Tomoko’s aunt is an enigma and an outlier in her working-class family, and her magnificent home—and handsome foreign husband, the president of a soft drink company—are symbols of that status. The seventeen rooms are filled with German-made furnishings; there are sprawling gardens and even an old zoo where the family’s pygmy hippopotamus resides.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Boring and so many loose ends
- De nyc2cents en 10-12-24
De: Yoko Ogawa, y otros
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Noughts and Crosses
- Noughts and Crosses 1
- De: Malorie Blackman
- Narrado por: Syan Blake, Paul Chequer
- Duración: 10 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 174
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 159
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 158
Sephy is a Cross – a member of the dark-skinned ruling class. Callum is a nought – a ‘colourless’ member of the underclass who were once slaves to the Crosses. The two have been friends since early childhood. But that’s as far as it can go. Until the first steps are taken towards more social equality and a limited number of Noughts are allowed into Cross schools
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wow!
- De Pablo Gallastegui en 08-04-24
De: Malorie Blackman