Un lugar seguro
Olivia Teroba
SHORT STORIES | 2019 | 120 pages
In Un lugar seguro, Olivia Teroba moves with ease between the everyday narration, the chronicle, and the personal essay, resulting in a book that is as unique as it is intimate and that, through careful and precise writing, shares her thoughts and life experience with readers. Set in both during her arrival in Mexico City and in her native Tlaxcala, she shares her influences, literary obsessions, and the difficulties of all kinds that come with the vocation of writing.
Based on topics as diverse as the chronicle of her grandfather being a proud Tlaxcaltecan, the teenage pressures to conform to an aesthetic ideal, her mother's relationship with an abusive man who systematically strips her of her heritage, and a meticulous journey through Elena Garro’s work, among many others, Teroba’s stories give voice to a sensitive perspective, which seems to make complete sense once captured through the written word.
RIGHTS: spanish (mexico) SEXTO PISO | spanish (world excl. mexico) LAS AFUERAS
“I found my way to this book, which seemed like an oasis to me. This book is beautiful and I highly recommend it.”
“I like the way Olivia Teroba writes, how she relates pop culture with literature, politics, and with some sensations and feelings that writers of my generation feel in their chests. I have underlined almost the entirety of her first book, Un lugar seguro. There is no page without a good idea, and there is no page without clean and radiant prose.”
“In Un lugar seguro, two paths come together: being and observing; that is, Olivia’s being and her way of observing the world. I say observe, but I could also say read. Each essay is like counting the steps from the refrigerator to the door, from the door to the street, from one city to another. Each essay is directly or indirectly linked to the previous or following one, each essay shows us an author who meticulously puts words to the emotions that we don’t know we have or have had.”
BY OLIVIA TEROBA:
Dinero y escritura
ESSAY, 2024
Todo lo que no ocurre
SHORT STORIES, 2024
El fin del mundo y el inicio
SHORT STORIES, 2022
Respirar bajo el agua
SHORT STORIES, 2020
Un lugar seguro
SHORT STORIES, 2019