X Is Where I Am
Sara Torres author Maureen Shaughnessy translator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Charco Press
Publishing:3rd Mar '26
£11.99
This title is due to be published on 3rd March, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
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 Almodovar vibes, the love is between women: overlapping and messy attachments between friends, young lovers, mothers and daughters. As Sara’s mother dies, her daughter is in bed with a new obsession. She’s 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 Sara’s 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 “a quagmire than anything else—sometimes sombre, sometimes blinded by light.” X Is Where I Am is one young woman’s fractious, hopeful, attempt to give in to it.
"Reading Sara Torres is always an experience whose echo, laden with ramifications, reverberates for an indefinite time in the back room of our psyche." —Vogue
"Beautiful, lyrical and moving. [...] A call to overturn everything, as intense as it is brief, that does not seek to please anyone." —Elle
"A novel in the style of Virginia Woolf's The Waves, of Djuna Barnes's Nightwood. That is, a narrative text forged from the magma of poetic prose. [...] A fine novel" —The Objective
"I see Sara Torres as a reincarnation of all those philosophers, storytellers and poets who shook the foundations of literature with their theories on love, friendship and human relationships. In her narrative there is candour, in her lyricism there is forcefulness and in her ideas, there is a whole display of erudition." —Luna Miguel
"A luminous book. It weaves together, in a precious and unique narrative, everything that crosses and hurts us." —María Sánchez , author of LAND OF WOMEN
"Everything she touches, what she writes, what she observes, turns to beauty. Her gaze is traversed by poetic cadence to the point of impregnating each of her steps with this soothing, restorative rhythm [...] [So It Goes] reaches heights of melodic virtuosity." —Abril
"One of the most beautiful debuts I remember in a long time. [...] About the body, about the need for touch, about that flesh that gives us sex and cancer. [...] It has captivated us and stirred us up a lot." —El Ojo Crítico
"A young poet who has revolutionized the world of prose." —El Mundo
"A punch where it hurts the most. [...] A novel with a powerful style and a marked confessional tone, So it goes is all talent, delicacy, a certain provocation, and an author with a great future. A splendid debut." —El Cultural
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Praise for Sara Torres
- Winner of the Javier Morote Award for Best Newcomer.
- One of El Cultural 's top ten debuts of the year. <
ISBN: 9781917260206
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: unknown
240 pages