english: 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.
non_english: Оскільки усе, що я читала - це книги, в яких героями були іноземці. Я була переконана, що книгам властиві герої-іноземці і вони повинні розповідати про те, з чим я не могла себе особисто ототожнювати.