Yesterday When I Was Young

For Maria Victoria Javier Laurena (1945−2022)

Abstract

After a few personal tragedies shake up the life she has built in the north of Spain, Teresa returns to San José, the town of her childhood, on the eve of her fortieth birthday. Over the course of an afternoon, she reacquaints herself with all that she had left behind—the food, the music, the house, the living, and the dead. But she has come alone, without her Spanish novio, and has everyone thinking: Has Teresa come home for good?