Nine exciting books to dive into reading this summer

In a world full of productivity, literature becomes a refuge from the outside noise. During these summer weeks, immersing yourself in a good book can be the best therapy. These are some books by female voices that move and embrace in equal measure.

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Raquel Congosto explores in her first novel a rarely addressed theme: mourning a broken friendship. The end of the relationship between two friends, Marina and Celia, who are no longer friends, and whose traces persist in both their memories. It is the story of the scar left on one of them. A love letter and a real testimony of a friendship that shaped the protagonists’ way of being in the world.

The book that (Marta) never wanted to write.” The story of the minutes when the author’s life was slipping away, the months after the accident, and the years when she fell in love and began to build a life without thinking it could end at any moment.

With the unmistakable tone that characterizes her, Milena Busquets brings together here a series of texts in which reflection, humor, and lucidity compose a work of liberation. Between personal essay, autobiography, and poetics, these pages explore love, friendship, motherhood, beauty, style, and the passage of time with an incisive and subtle gaze.

Set in her native land, Lanzarote, Lana Corujo’s first novel is written with such deep sensitivity that it feels like a hug for the soul. The story addresses the bond between two sisters, the consequences of a dysfunctional family, and a gift inherited and marked by the inability to accept a tragedy.

Gabriela González opens up to offer the reader small stories and reflections about the transition to adulthood. That indefinable stage in which we leave youth behind without being entirely sure who we are. With sensitive and direct prose, she builds an intimate narrative about the search for identity, others’ expectations, and the desire to live in one’s own coherence.

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Eve Babitz burned in a 1968 Volkswagen Beetle on a Sunday in 1997. Known as the most uncontestable it girl of Los Angeles, she was also a prolific writer for magazines like Rolling Stone and Vogue. This book gathers fifty articles written from 1975 until the year of the accident, previously unpublished in Spanish.

Reading a book by Nora Ephron is like sitting down to dinner with a good friend. In her pages, you find wit, everyday reflections on life situations, analysis of almost everything, and lots of fun. In this anthology of texts previously unpublished in Spanish, Ephron teaches us, among other things, how to be the perfect hosts without dying trying.

First it was diet culture, now the need for perfect skin. We are at a peak moment of aesthetic violence against women, and writer Leticia Sala has delved into this theme in her essay Give Me Poison Because I Want to Live. Skincare, Botox, fear of aging, and female lineage, published in the New Anagrama Notebooks collection. Society imposes on women that they must look young, regardless of age, and also hide any treatment or injectable they resort to. A book written not from judgment, but from the need to be able to age in peace without fear of guilt or responsibility.

Valencian writer Elísabet Benavent explores in her latest book the good girl syndrome, that is, the pathological need to please others. The protagonist of this title is Júlia, a girl who lives in Barcelona and works in a bar. Her goal is not to disappoint and to maintain that image of perfection she has lived with all her life. But the author poses the following question: how much of what Júlia does is real and how much is an act so that they keep loving her?

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