Raised in a poor family in San Blas, a neighborhood "with a saint's name but forsaken by God," the protagonist grows up knowing she is different. She is a girl trapped in a male body, forced to navigate a world that offers no vocabulary or space for her identity. The book’s title, La mala costumbre (The Bad Habit), refers to the societal habit of repressing and marginalizing those who are different, as well as the "bad habit" the protagonist must break to finally inhabit her true self.
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Bad Habit by Alana S Portero review – in search of acceptance Raised in a poor family in San Blas,
The protagonist finds solace not in reality but in fantasy: B-movies, castillos góticos , and the novels of Anne Rice. The EPUB format allows you to hyperlink these references, creating a web of intertextuality. A curated list of from Spain and Latin America
Bad Habit by Alana S Portero review – in search of acceptance
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