An Italian Writer You Should Read
Read: “Tana” by Giulio Mozzi
Translated from Italian by Elizabeth Harris
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Tana
Giulio Mozzi
The rain began that morning. Tana was coming home from school. Thursday afternoons they had sewing class, and now on the bus, she realized this was the first day she’d left school in the dark. It would go on like this for months. It was cold out, raining, and the bus, jammed with boys and girls, with students, was steaming hot. The windows were fogged up; someone had managed to pry one open, and Tana, already sweaty, was freezing. She thought: I might get sick, stay home a week. She didn’t try to get out of the draft; she didn’t protest. The rain hit her face, her eyes. It hadn’t rained in a while and the city and air were full of dust. She felt the rain burning against her face, her eyes . . . READ MORE
