X Is Where I Am
Spain

X Is Where I Am

by Sara Torres

Love & Passion Literary Fiction Fiction 2026

Summary

In this intimate, lyrical novel, a young Spanish writer navigates the overlapping experiences of grief, desire, and complicated love. When twenty-eight-year-old Sara moves from London to Barcelona for a university teaching position, she leaves behind her long-term girlfriend while beginning an intense affair with a woman she calls Girl. At the same time, her mother is dying of cancer in Asturias, forcing Sara to confront the approaching loss of one of the most important relationships in her life. As these emotional worlds collide, she struggles with guilt, longing, and the impossibility of controlling either her own desires or the people she loves. Blending fiction with philosophical reflection, Torres explores the body as a site of pleasure, vulnerability, and suffering. Her prose moves between intimate encounters and meditations on attachment, sexuality, and mortality, capturing the messy contradictions of being human. X Is Where I Am is ultimately a moving exploration of how we continue to love amid loss—and how grief can transform our understanding of ourselves and our relationships.

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Sara Torres
Sara Torres

Sara Torres (born 1991) is a Spanish poet, novelist, and academic from Gijón, Asturias. Her writing explores lesbian desire, queer identity, the body, and the complex connections between love, grief, and intimacy. She studied literary theory and earned a doctorate from Queen Mary University of London, where her research focused on lesbian literature, desire, and queer forms of identity. Torres first gained recognition as a poet, receiving the Gloria Fuertes Poetry Prize in 2014 for her debut collection, La otra genealogía. Her first novel, Lo que hay (X Is Where I Am), appeared in 2022 and received the Javier Morote Award for Best New Author from the Spanish Confederation of Booksellers’ Guilds and Associations. Known for combining poetic language with philosophical inquiry, Torres challenges conventional ideas about relationships and romantic attachment, making her one of the distinctive contemporary voices exploring queer experience in Spanish literature.

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2026
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Sara Torres