A complete novel of lesbian autofiction, an ode to life.
If Carlota has it all ―she’s turned thirty, works in a job related to what she studied, and lives with a girlfriend she adores―, where does the anxiety come from?
Every night, Carlota fights insomnia by recalling scenes from her childhood during the nineties, when she went from living in a luxury penthouse on Fuencarral Street to moving to a subsidized apartment in Vallecas.
Like all kids, she expected a lot from life; but years pass and she finds herself in a post-pandemic Madrid, stuck in a job she hates and listening, possessed, to reggaeton to avoid thinking. She’s at a point in her life where she doesn’t know whether to jump on the bandwagon of having children with her girlfriend or drop everything and travel around Europe in a van.
However, her mother’s illness will disrupt her plans. When she recovers the family photo albums, she discovers that not everything is as she thought: between achievements and setbacks, her life has actually been a good movie.
Carlota, cariño is a novel of autofiction and an ode to life: the one you lived, the one you have, and the one yet to come.
