An awareness, not without pain, the fruit of a progressive process of inner exploration, because to stop being nobody and finally become someone, one must have the courage to "stab oneself, bring out everything inside, look at it honestly, clean it out, and put it back in. But while one gets used to the constant pain that comes from being nobody, if one has a wound and begins to clean it out, it hurts even more," as author Federica Pace emphasizes in her book "The Art of Being Nobody" (Robin Edizioni).
Federica, born in 1989, of Sicilian origins, a land that has always been twinned with that of Naples, tells, in the form of a diary and internal dialogue, drawing on her personal existential journey, a process of progressive self-awareness.
This novel contains delicate and sensitive themes such as awareness and the construction of gender identity, the relationship with a degenerative disease, love, friendship and death.
Because to be reborn into a new life, an adult life, freeing oneself from numerous internal and external “yokes”, finally aware of who one is, it is necessary to die.
In this story, however, the one who dies is Asia, one of the two protagonists, unable to bear the weight of the world and the ferocity of the external non-acceptance that she perceives, while twenty-seven-year-old Sophia will continue her journey, guardian of the memory of what has been but also, at a certain point, of what could have been.
In Italy, currently, there is still no law against homophobic and transphobic hatred and violence. According to data released by Arcigay, the ones affected by this violence and discrimination are women, who are already victims of a patriarchal and chauvinist culture.
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