La edad de tiza

Álvaro has already turned thirty when a work setback returns him to the family home: his mother continues to live there and the promises of prosperity of his adolescence also remain, like ghosts. Without much else to do, he sets out to unravel an old mystery that began when he was fourteen years old: the disappearance of a videotape on sex education that was played to them in class and which led to other equally inexplicable events. Among dubious memories, we return with Álvaro to the year 1991, to a male and concerted school in which they talk about the Spain of the future, where girls are light years away, parents and children are unable to communicate, and mature means stop asking questions. The Chalk Age is a great growth novel disguised as a novel of intrigue: the tale of "the most prepared generation in history", of the expectations and promises that the boomers lived through and vanished for the millennials.