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.
Siccome tutto ciò che avevo letto erano libri i cui personaggi erano stranieri, mi ero convinta che i libri, per loro natura, dovevano avere personaggi stranieri, e dovevano parlare di cose con le quali io non potevo identificarmi.