02395cam a2200373 i 4500 1148227766 TxAuBib 20240425120000.0 240412s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780063336124 HRD 26.00 006333612X HRD 26.00 (OCoLC)1429629151 TxAuBib rda eng spa Portero, Alana, author. Mala costumbre English. Bad habit [BOOK] : a novel / Alana S. Portero ; translated from the Spanish by Mara Faye Lethem. First Harpervia hardcover edition. New York, NY : HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2024. ix, 224 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "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.". "Originally published as La mala costumbre in Spain in 2023 by Seix Barral.". 20240425. Transgender women Fiction. Young women Spain Madrid Fiction. Transgender fiction. Transgender people Fiction. LGBTQIA+. Spain History 20th century Fiction. Lethem, Mara, translator.