"It's the best gift you can give yourself," says the writer, editor and director of the Ona bookstore, Yolanda Batallé, about the essay Women Who Run with the Wolves (Rosa de los Vientos), by the American Clarissa Pinkola Estés (Gary, 1945). Batallé read it thirty years ago in English, and since then she has not stopped recommending it, especially since it was released in Catalan in 2023 with a translation by Emma de Porrata-Doria and Botey. It is not a short book—it is almost 800 pages long—but Batallé maintains that it is one of those ideal titles to always have close at hand, on your nightstand, and read in small doses.

After reviewing her travels around the world, editor and writer Iolanda Batallé discarded the earliest summer memories that came to mind and settled on a seemingly simple, yet magical one: a summer spent at the beach with her son Teo and visiting several friends in the Netherlands, who appear in the photograph. "We didn't realize it, but it was paradise. There was a connection between son, mother, friends, and the sea that I don't think has ever been so profound." That's why she goes back to this memory from 2005: "It was magical. The summer of discovering ourselves. That summer made us who we are."

On November 25, 2024, Iolanda Batallé (Barcelona, ​​​​1971) revealed in a thread of X sexual and power abuse she has suffered over the years. That message was the result of a need to share her pain, and it has now led her to turn it into a book. Brave like you (Destino) is the testimony of a woman who has lived with violence, who has been attacked, who has defended herself, and who has suffered the consequences of standing up to it. Batallé, who is also an editor and currently runs the Ona bookstore, wants the book to serve as a way of breaking silence. To present it, on June 11th she will bring together eight women from eight different generations, from Juliana Canet to Pilarín Bayés, at the bookstore.