El sonido de las olas

In Until a Hurricane Passes, a middle-class teenager is the protagonist of an often tedious life, in a city near the sea, from which she dreams of fleeing. In What I Didn't Learn, a girl carefully observes the figure that her father represents: a lawyer who practices paranormal practices. Her innocent voice and her lucid gaze are a quest to heal her own story. Finally there is Sexual Education, a text that moves between autobiographical fiction and the essay, set in an Opus Dei school in the Caribbean. With the latter, the connections between the three titles are revealed: a collection of youthful prints of women who rebel with irony, intelligence and courage in the face of tradition and abuse, and who constantly try to reinvent themselves in other worlds. Margarita García Robayo looks at the world with ruthless attention but also with extreme naturalness: she is never completely outside of what she observes or what she names, and the exercise of looking at herself in her mirror does not paralyze her, on the contrary. . It is impossible to describe the raw and warm irreverence of her writing. Her characters resemble each other but perhaps they would not agree, because they do not want to resemble anyone and at the same time fervently want -sometimes at any cost- to participate in the world.