Because all I had read were books in which characters were foreign, I had become convinced that books by their very nature had to have foreigners in them and had to be about things with which I could not personally identify.
Como eu só lia livros em que as personagens eram estrangeiras, eu convenci-me que os livros, pela sua própria natureza, tinham de incluir estrangeiros, e tinham de ser sobre coisas com que eu não me identificava  pessoalmente.