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272 pages, Paperback
First published February 14, 2019








"Siamo tutti di una classe che si traveste da qualcos'altro, la distribuzione della miseria e delle richezze resta la stessa."

Autobiography—and my mother’s is no exception—is the bastard genre of literature, at least according to the old cliché of the literary elite: to these readers, it lowers the threshold, is fodder for anyone, refugees, women, people with disabilities, Holocaust survivors, survivors of all kinds.
Years ago, on Facebook, we spoke of ourselves in third person and this felt right, like narrative; we became characters and no was bothered by this; then we went back to I, to publishing in first person, abut the idea of making ourselves important through autobiography seems dirty, and we’re back to harbouring suspicions about the genre, though every day we reinforce it with our contributions, rendering it a collective autobiography.