Elisa Tokeshi in conversation with Andrea Lerner

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.