There are books that are best understood through the author’s life story. The singer, writer and content creator Elisa Tokeshi Peru) has borderline personality disorder (BPD); just like Julieta, the protagonist of Borderline sagrada, her first novel. Literature serves as a form of catharsis here, as Tokeshi began writing it on the very weekend she overcame her addictions. But whilst it draws on some personal experiences, it remains a work of fiction. The story recounts the day-to-day life of a young woman with BPD – a sort of chaos, with its emotional highs and lows. A self-destructive cycle, with failed attempts at healing, broken promises and wounds; and, also, a testimony to recovery.
