Hermana

This is the story of a friendship of ten years, from twenty-six to thirty-six, but it could be the fable of the rhizome and the butterfly: the protagonist sinks into the roots -she lives in the family home, has a daughter, writes-, while her friend is an actress, singer, whirlwind photocall and plans to leave for the umpteenth time, flee from Madrid, to Texas perhaps. It is also the story of an endeavor: the narrator writes the "Encyclopedia of the Good Times of the Writers", a work that she will be able to talk about with pleasure. The martyrology is over, the dramas and the sacrifice are over as the only available version. "Sister. (Pleasure)" is based on real events, but fictionalized and fantasized. The author investigates what some writers she admires were silent: Elena Fortún, Rosa Chacel, Matilde Ras, Carmen Laforet, María Lejárraga, or Teresa de Jesús. Her texts, written from repression, ambiguity, the smallest enjoyment or doubt, helped her in that spring of 2020, when her friendship was seen in the light of an unexpected break.