A story about the son of the pharmacist and the daughter of the fodder store owner; about a Leonese town where the mines have closed, the power plant is about to be demolished, and the future is nonexistent.
Architecture is the beginning of a transformation. The construction of a new building in the neighborhood keeps Clara and her grandfather Urbano entertained.
The Sagrada Familia has collapsed. After this catastrophe, something has broken inside Elda, to the point of making her fly back from Kobe to Barcelona to reconcile herself with a painful past.
In the springtime, the goldfinches return to Alhucemas from the desert, the same desert from which Brahim's brother is returning after participating in the Green March.
Mia and Greta are good friends. They have known each other since high school, and now share an apartment in Barcelona.
Zahra's marriage has been arranged. She is not marrying for love. She is not in love. She hardly even knows her cousin, Amir, the spoiled scion of a family with excessive ambitions.
A pregnant teenager runs away from her violent boyfriend. A couple reaches a roadblock and contemplates murder as their only way out. A woman loses her brother after cheating a drug dealer. A computer expert steals all of her lover’s savings.
Zel hides her list of forbidden wishes in a drawer, out of her mother’s sight. She is turning eighteen, and hopes that her mother will finally let her go out into the world so she can run cross country, see the ocean, and smile at some stranger.
Rocío used to be beautiful, long ago, but now she is forced to hide half of her face behind a mask.
A graphic novel influenced by Todd Solondz’s films and Daniel Clowes’ comic books. Adolescence is hell. Becky knows it and suffers it daily in her own flesh.
Lily Meyer is a writer, translator, and critic. Her translations include Claudia Ulloa Donoso’s story collections Little Bird and Ice for Martians. Her ...
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