BAD HABIT

A staggering coming of age novel deeply rooted in the class struggles of a trans woman growing up in Madrid in the last decades of the twentieth century. Told in the heartrending voice of a girl trapped within the body of a boy, Bad Habit is a story of coming of age in working class Madrid in a godforsaken neighborhood ironically named after a saint. Alana S. Portero's spunky protagonist struggles to make sense of herself and the world she inhabits, conveying her surroundings with mythic allusions and a poetic vitality absent from everyday life.