Primera persona

In this collection of eleven autobiographical narratives written between 2011 and 2025, Margarita García Robayo delves into the most intimate territories to question the myths we often take for granted —father, mother, family, home, intimacy, partner, sex— and reveal the cracks upon which a life is built. With poignant frankness and ironic humor, she unveils the autopsy of her imperfect yet tragically universal inner self. The pieces explore love and infatuation, obsessions, friendship, and desire. They also touch upon the contradictions of motherhood and the frustrations that accompany it, the moves that reshape her personal landscape. Her relationships with older men become entangled with the shadow of her father, while her mother's mental breakdowns are observed from the everyday, almost like a domestic landscape.