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.
登場人物が外国人だったので 本とは本来 登場人物が外国人で 私が感情移入することのできない― 内容でなければならないと 思い込んでいたのです