Fiction – World Literature – Spain – Family Life – Women – LGBTQ+ – Lesbian

RELEASE DATE: 3/3/2026 (WILL SHIP DIRECTLY FROM OUR SUPPLIER’S WAREHOUSE)

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 Almodvar vibes, the love is between women: overlapping and messy attachments between friends, young lovers, mothers and daughters. As Saras mother dies, her daughter is in bed with a new obsession. Shes 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 Saras 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 elsesometimes sombre, sometimes blinded by light. X Is Where I Am is one young womans fractious, hopeful, attempt to give in to it.

AUTHOR BIO:

Sara Torresis a poet and novelist born in Gijn in 1991. Her novelLo Que Hay(X Is Where I Am)__ received the Javier Morote Award for best new author in 2022. She studied Spanish Language and Literature at the University of Oviedo before completing a master’s degree at King’s College London specializing in theories of textuality, psychoanalysis, queer studies, and feminism, followed by a PhD at Queen Mary University of London. Her first book of poems,La Otra Genealoga, won the Gloria Fuertes national poetry award. She has also published the poetry collectionsConjuros y Cantos,Phantasmagoria,El Ritual Del Baoand most recentlyDeseo De Perro. She writes regularly foreldiario.es. Her second novelLa Seduccinwas published in April 2024. This is her first book to appear in English.

TRANSLATOR BIO:

Maureen Shaughnessyis a writer and translator from Spanish. Her published translations include works by Beln Lpez Peir, Sara Gallardo, Hebe Uhart, and Nurit Kasztelan. Her translations have been featured inThe Paris Review, Brick,World Literature Today, LALT, AGNI, WWBandAsymptote. In 2023, her translation of Lpez Peir’sWhy Did You Come Back Every Summerreceived an English PEN Translates Award. Raised in Oregon, she now lives in Bariloche, Argentina.