TORTOISESHELL

"I grew into a confused teen-ager, scared to tell my stories and yet unable to stop. 

Then, one spring afternoon, at a bookstall on Via Foria, I bought a cheap, well-worn copy of Hemingway’s “Forty-nine Stories,” translated into Italian. 

I read them all in a matter of days and liked many of them. But one in particular, “Cat in the Rain,” stood out."