Imagine Breaking Everything by Lina Munar Guevara

Description

A weekend. A past. And everything on the verge of breaking.

In Imagine Breaking Everything, Lina Munar Guevara delivers a fierce, witty coming-of-age novel set against the rain-soaked streets of Bogotá. Eighteen-year-old Melissa is on the edge of graduation—and on the hook for a printer she can’t afford to replace. It’s a small crisis, but one that threatens to unravel everything she’s worked to hold together.

Melissa wasn’t always this controlled.

After years of anger and instability, she has spent five years rebuilding herself under the care of her aunt Anahí. She’s learned restraint. She’s learned survival. She’s learned how not to break things.

But when her estranged mother suddenly reappears, inviting her back to the neighborhood she left behind, those fragile lessons begin to crack.

What starts as a simple weekend visit becomes something far more complicated. Old memories resurface. Old patterns threaten to return. And Melissa must confront the person she used to be while trying to protect the person she’s becoming.

Set over the course of a single tense, emotional weekend, Imagine Breaking Everything explores identity, anger, family, and the difficult, often messy process of change. Sharp, intimate, and deeply human, it captures the moment when the past reaches forward—and asks whether you’ll let it define you.

Book Details
Author: Lina Munar Guevara
Translator: Ellen Jones
Format: Paperback
Publication Date: April 7, 2026
ISBN: 1916806120