The 3 best books by Laura Ferrero

It is always gratifying to find those new generations that ensure a replacement in whatever field. Because the author Laura ferrero appears as a new writer of that realism always necessary to chronicle a time in a melting pot of intrahistories.

Counting on other writers like Bethlehem Gopegui, Martha Sanz o Edurne portela (by fixing the focus on writers who, each in their own way and in their disparate plots, balance the necessary feminine vision with the essentially humanistic), Laura aims to swell that group of writers who will make up the mosaic of our time.

For now, his bibliography offers us those great glimpses of what is to come, through that necessary essential commitment to the characters to move us to a world full of nuances that end up facing us in the mirror of our own existence.

Fiction, compose stories or novels about the circumstances of the characters and their way of facing their realities can always mean that empathic rediscovery of oneself. No existential placebo is better than literature when that transmission belt is managed to shake our inner engine, thanks to the imaginary and the brilliant formal exposition of the writer on duty.

Top 3 recommended books by Laura Ferrero

What are you going to do with the rest of your life

The questions that address us if we are assaulted by a question similar to the one in the title of this novel, point to that rest of your life as what remains, as the result of your more or less correct decisions. The end result can be vertigo. Unless maybe you're still 30, like Laura. In such a case the texitura is shod with a lightness that still allows you to dance through life as if your song were playing at full volume, still. But even so, Laura has a lot to discover about herself.

And what can be added to her 30 years may distort that melody forever, in Laura's case already with a melancholic hint of violins because of how hard it was and how sweet it could never be culminated, no matter how much she had it. wanted. The point is that at the age of thirty Laura leaves her partner and leaves Ibiza to move to New York. His youth has been marked by his relationship with his father, an intolerant man; his mother, who disappeared only to return five years later; and Pablo, his brother, who finds in painting the way to fight his mental illness.

In New York, Laura begins to work in a publishing house and to attend classes that Gael, a mysterious acquaintance of her mother, teaches at Columbia University. Who is Gael? What does he know about everything that has happened in his family?

What are you going to do with the rest of your life

Empty pools

On many occasions I have expressed my consideration of the story as a creative space very different from the novel. Yes, it's all about writing, but the way you look at a short story has nothing to do with it.

Because the story condenses and finally explodes. And in the contraction of life that involves narrating limited or focused towards the most immediate end possible, the virtue of the good writer stands out greatly in his way of balancing form and substance. That is why when Laura Ferrero unveiled her empty pools, with her evocative image of overdue summers with no renewal period in sight, critics rescued the volume as a memorable work.

The protagonists of these stories are not heroes nor do they live life and death situations. They are too much like ourselves. It could be our neighbors, our parents, our partners, our lovers, a woman who cannot sleep and goes to the living room to listen to the hum of the television. A father blowing out the candles in front of his son, who is also a father. A girl who writes a love story to a girl she will never meet. A grandfather who speaks to a photograph.

A man and a woman saying goodbye in a corner. They do not know each other, but similar things happen to all of them: life, with its insignificance but also with its big questions: how does one fall in love, why does love that is not spent hardens, what is it that scares us. They must choose between the life they have and the life they imagine. At that crossroads these stories are born. Echoes of Lorrie Moore and Raymond Carver ring out in this first work by Laura Ferrero, whose initial publication on digital was an unusual event. A powerful voice bursts into Spanish literature.

Empty pools

The love after Love

Great ideas are almost always born out of boredom. It must be a matter of the contrast between nothingness, emptiness and the implicit need for a spark to emerge. Something like this indicated the author that happened when this volume of illustrated stories was conceived. And let's notice that he does not call "heartbreak" to what remains when love jumps out the window, as some famous singer would say. And if boredom can end up awakening the great idea, disenchantment, and why not say it, that lack of love omitted from the title, they end up bringing muses who tend to be more comfortable in the heat of hellfire.

The lower you fall, the more those muses end up telling you, such as resilience or sublimation so that you can make music or literature.The best thing about a good writer or good writer is knowing how to collect the moments that everyone wants to forget (failures and losses), like a remnant to tell stories, if only for that. Because then comes the time to project them, increase them into such shocking turn characters as Amy Winehouse or Eric Clapton among others, visitors to heartbreak in its most shocking version so that all of them testify that the creative and the destructive are the same form of tragic beauty.

The love after Love

Other recommended books by Laura Ferrero

The astronauts

Family and estrangement. What we were based on the closest environment and the sidereal distance that covers everything afterwards, with residues in the form of a trail of light. The family is that place where you were (or could) be happy but that is no longer found in its proper nature, because of the river that never stops flowing, being a different river at all times. To the point of feeling the present as an inhospitable place with doors inward from what was once home, advancing as if without gravity, alienated in your own home.

We all know from childhood which people make up our family and what are the ties that bind us to each one of them. Everyone except the protagonist of this novel, who was never told that she too, at some point in her life, had had one of hers. What happened in those years so that all the vestiges of the time disappeared? Los astronautas narrates the deciphering of that ecosystem lost in time: a photograph found by chance, in which she appears as a child with her parents, illuminates the reality of her family thirty-five years late. But she illuminates, above all, the deficiencies, the silences and the secrets on which she was forced to shape her identity. However, a story never tells the truth, but a truth...

Laura Ferrero starts from an autobiographical fact to build an exciting fiction, at times heartbreaking, about all those stories that inoculate us in childhood about our own life and that we do not question until we are able to observe it from the outside. Just like those men and women, the astronauts, who had to go as far as possible, where no one had gone, to finally understand what was always within reach.

The astronauts
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