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.
Tā kā visās manis lasītajās grāmatās varoņi bija ārzemnieki, es biju pārliecināta, ka grāmatām pēc savas būtības jārunā par ārzemniekiem un par man pilnīgi nezināmām lietām.