Institut Ramon LLull

Flashbacks to languid childhood days spent in the Delta of the Ebro River, study abroad in Paris and her early adulthood in Barcelona, are the settings for Gina’s reflections on how she can mature into an emotional bubble of solitude and self-love, and not waste the time she’s been given. These musings are brought into sharp focus when she is diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and must decide whether she wants to be a mother, quickly, before the window closes. Her detailed and intimate first-person account of her personal growth is written in the dialect of the Delta, and interspersed with letters—mostly never sent—to an idealized friend, and dialogues—actual and imagined— with her therapist. It is this warm, searching, genuine voice that pulls us along in Gina’s journey of self-discovery, as if the story was being told to us by a dear friend, whose resilience and sense of humour lead us gently along our own path of self-reflection, in turn.