‘UNTIL IT STARTS TO SHINE’
Artemisa Tellez
What Artemisa Téllez did for this book was exhaustive: gathering stories of love between women that reflect the most intimate moments of tenderness and the most tragic moments; those in which the person who is the object of that overwhelming infatuation leaves the authors in a state of deep sadness.
This selection of Mexican lesbian stories offers us stories of women who share their secrets of seduction or defenders of free love, also of young people who provoke erotic desires, and offers us a look at the different types of passions, and how they are experienced among women. .
‘STORY OF SHUGGIE BAIN’
Douglas Stuart
This story is not the biography of the author, a fashion designer who has worked for Calvin Klein and Ralph Lauren, but… it could be. Shuggie, the protagonist of the book, is the youngest of three children of an absent father and an alcoholic mother with a childhood crossed by a Glasgow that agonizes over the policies of Margaret Thatcher. The story of the boy, a sensitive and mannered little boy who prefers to stay at home to take care of his mother, is told with great tenderness through the eyes of that abandoned woman. That’s what the author does.
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‘PORTOGRAPHY FOR PYROMANIACS’
Wenceslao Bruciaga
The rawest book in our selection. The story of the protagonists Pedro Blaster and Jeff Pliers, residents of San Francisco, openly addresses issues such as virility or toxic, sometimes violent masculinity. They are both gay porn stars and, although they know each other and sometimes coincide, they are completely different, with separate stories. What they both do very well is question current standards about “what should be” and resist the social changes that have led to equal rights.
‘DONKEY BELLY’
Andrea Abreu
There will be those who will be surprised that this title is included in the selection; However, there is a reason: it is the story of the friendship of two girls and their sexual awakening. It is the story of that little friend whom you love very much and you follow blindly, of the little friend with whom you could have fallen in love (or perhaps, without knowing it or having asked, you fell in love).
Both protagonists, Isora and her friend who idolizes her, live on an island and have deep childhood wounds. A moving story about that moment when we all enter the threshold of adult life.
