{"product_id":"x-is-where-i-am-paperback","title":"X Is Where I Am - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSara Torres\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMaureen Shaughnessy\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA searching, buoyant novel about queer love, mothers and daughters, and making a life in the face of the only constant: loss.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvery story is a love story. In a Barcelona redolent with Almodóvar 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 \"more like a quagmire than anything else--sometimes sombre, sometimes blinded by light,\" then \u003cem\u003eX Is Where I Am\u003c\/em\u003e is one young woman's fractious, hopeful, attempt to give in to it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSara Torres\u003c\/strong\u003e is an award-winning Spanish poet and novelist from Gijón. Her debut novel \u003cem\u003eX Is Where I Am\u003c\/em\u003e (\u003cem\u003eLo Que Hay\u003c\/em\u003e ), a major literary success in Spain, won the Javier Morote Award for Best New Author and is the first of her books to be published in English.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMaureen Shaughnessy\u003c\/strong\u003e is a writer and translator from Spanish. Her work has appeared in \u003cem\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBrick\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eAGNI\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eAsymptote\u003c\/em\u003e . In 2023, her translation of Belén López Peiró's \u003cem\u003eWhy Did You Come Back Every Summer\u003c\/em\u003e received an English PEN Translates Award. She lives in Bariloche, Argentina.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 7.8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 03, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52033392214317,"sku":"9781917260206","price":19.35,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/Ix7qxNl6aT9781917260206.webp?v=1777593041","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/x-is-where-i-am-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}