X Is Where I Am [Paperback]

A searching, buoyant novel about queer love, mothers and daughters, and making a life in the face of the only constant: loss.

Every story is a love story. In a Barcelona redolent with Almod?var vibes, the love is between women: overlapping and messy attachments between friends, young lovers, mothers and daughters. As Saras mother dies, her daughter is in bed with a new obsession. Shes wracked with guilt, but the persistence of need, the demands of the body, refuse to take a dignified pause for the observance of another body leaving this world. If one of the projects of growing up is being defeated by the limits of control we have over ourselves and others, the frustration of trying and failing to be understood, then Saras loss, her lovers, and her longterm girlfriend are her passage from 28 and casting about to a little bit older and a little bit more sorted out. If love is more like a quagmire than anything elsesometimes sombre, sometimes blinded by light, thenX Is Where I Amis one young womans fractious, hopeful, attempt to give in to it.

• A celebrated Spanish debut:The original Spanish edition ofX Is Where I Am(published as_Lo que hay_ ) was a critical success, winning the Javier Morote Award and earning praise from outlets includingVogueandEl Cultural.
• Queer love in Barcelona:A vivid portrayal of relationships between women, capturing desire, grief, and the complexity of connection with striking immediacy.
• A poetic and searching voice:Torres brings a finely tuned lyrical sensibility to a novel that explores the emotional terrain between youth and adulthood.
• A powerful meditation on grief:A clear-eyed look at how love and desire continue in the wake of profound loss.

Sara Torresis an award-winning Spanish poet and novelist from Gij?n. Her debut novelX Is Where l£"