Edited by Creatura comes “If things were as they are”, first novel by the Uruguayan writer Gabriela Escobar awarded the Onetti Prize in Narrative.

Through this book, The author presents an intimate story that, with small pieces, reconstruct a family genealogy.

during the text, Escobar proposes returning to his mother's house after a romantic separation. There, in “la Tumbona” – as he calls it –, You will spend a summer on the Uruguayan coast that includes an itinerary that goes from the house to the beach, the return through the neighborhood and the weed lands to discover a new reality; a minimal cartography and at the same time full of traps.

In the pages of the book, the reader will explore passages from the author's childhood within a dysfunctional family., from which his father was expelled, and who could only be referred to as a “bad word.”. further, his two male brothers, with whom he also lives again, They are still trapped in the “protection” of that mother, that encompasses everything.

Escobar, in addition to being a writer, is also a musician and previously published poems in the anthology “Devotas” (2021) and in the Pablo Neruda Prize Anthology (2018).