Contradeseo / Counter-Desire

"Silvia breaks up with her fiancâe, ending all hope of legalizing her immigration status. Heartbroken and with nowhere to go, she turns to the only friends she has left, crashing on Javier and Teresa's pullout couch in exchange for cleaning their tiny apartment. During those bleak winter days in an apartment littered with unopened wedding gifts, tensions emerge that will test the bounds of work and sex. Readers will find it impossible to look away as the author probes the dynamics that develop among this trio of young adults trapped in a world as merciless as it is banal. Well-paced and filled with beauty, Counter-desire confirms Gloria Susana Esquivel as one of Colombia's most interesting contemporary authors." --