Dua Lipa's September Book Club Pick!Included in The Guardian's Best Translated Fiction of 2024 [Bad Habit] shows us that a 'trans novel' can actually be anything it wants to be. –New York Times A novel that could very well serve as a surrogate mother for future children who grow up lonely and trans. –Washington PostCombining the raw realism and vulnerability of Shuggie Bain and Detransition, Baby with the poignant sensibility of Pedro Almodóvar, a staggering coming-of-age novel deeply rooted in the struggles of a trans woman growing up in Madrid.Anchored by the voice of its sweet and defiant narrator, Bad Habit casts a trans woman’s trying youth as a heartfelt odyssey. 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...

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