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.
Porque tudo que eu havia lido eram livros nos quais as personagens eram estrangeiras, eu convenci-me de que os livros, por sua própria natureza, tinham que ter estrangeiros e tinham que ser sobre coisas com as quais eu não podia me identificar.