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Bad Habit
by Alana S. Portero
FictionAdult
240 pages · Published 2023
This NYT bestseller follows a trans woman's coming-of-age in 1980s-90s working-class Madrid, particularly the San Blas neighborhood. Raw, tender, and Almodóvar-esque, it captures the city's underground party scene and the struggle for identity during Spain's cultural transition.
“A work of deep humility, spilling over with prose rich as double cream, will function much the same, as a lodestar for readers, staggering bruised towards their own personhood.”
— The Guardian
