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Los borrachos de mi vida

My Life Among the Drunk | Lengua de trapo, 2009

The stories in Los borrachos de mi vida serve as a detailed instruction manual on how to avoid confronting an aggressive and complex world that always demands a quick and effective response.

The inability to learn from one’s mistakes, to break vicious cycles, is woven through the stories in this book to build a modern emotional education. The protagonists are young people facing heartbreak and loneliness for the first time, engaged in a battle with no winners or losers—only survivors. Each tale is a careful, often humorous, foray into the corners of experience, a milestone in the characters’ lives with echoes that will linger in readers’ memories.

Los borrachos de mi vida

My Life Among the Drunk | Lengua de trapo, 2009

The stories in Los borrachos de mi vida serve as a detailed instruction manual on how to avoid confronting an aggressive and complex world that always demands a quick and effective response.

The inability to learn from one’s mistakes, to break vicious cycles, is woven through the stories in this book to build a modern emotional education. The protagonists are young people facing heartbreak and loneliness for the first time, engaged in a battle with no winners or losers—only survivors. Each tale is a careful, often humorous, foray into the corners of experience, a milestone in the characters’ lives with echoes that will linger in readers’ memories.