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144 pages, Paperback
First published July 12, 2022
"I'm sorry," my mother said. My delivery indeed must have come off as either angry or cold or exasperated. It's strange for my mother to apologize for not being able to eat more. And yet, I wanted her to apologize to me—it didn't matter what for.
With my mother, I always felt like an outsider.
Had it been her own skin that my mother wanted to burn? Or rather, was it that my skin, which had been created from her own body, was her skin too?
«Scusa» mi disse. Penso che le mie parole e il mio atteggiamento mi avessero fatto sembrare arrabbiata, fredda ed esasperata. Era strano che mi chiedesse scusa perché non riusciva a mangiare. Malgrado ciò volevo che mia madre mi chiedesse scusa. Desideravo che si scusasse con me, per qualsiasi cosa fosse.