adolescence
anger
Bogota
Category=FBA
Colombia
coming of age
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gender roles
identity
South America
translated fiction
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- ISBN 9781916806122
- Dimensions: 125 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 10 Nov 2025
- Publisher: Peirene Press Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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It's a rainy weekend in Bogota, and eighteen-year-old Melissa is about to graduate from school. If, that is, she can scrape together the money to pay for the printer she broke. Melissa used to break a lot of things, but after five years of living with her aunt Anahi, she has become much better at controlling her anger. Then, out of the blue and for the first time in six months, Melissa's mother calls her and invites her to spend the weekend together in their old neighbourhood. Melissa is excited to spend time with her, but nervous about returning to the scene of her troubled early adolescence. Will she make it to Monday morning without jeopardising her future - or being swallowed up by her past?
Lina Munar Guevara (b. 1996) is a writer and lawyer from Bogota, Colombia. Imagine Breaking Everything was published by Himpar Editores in 2022 and was shortlisted for the Sundial Literary Translation Award (2023). Her story 'In the Mountains' is published in English (translated by Ellen Jones) in a collection of Latin American horror stories titled Through the Night Like a Snake, part of Two Lines Press's Calico Series (2024). Lina has an MFA in Creative Writing from New York University.
