Sanae De Boer

There is an actual rule in the Dangata that tells people to, if they do such a thing, they will be killed by their nearest family members.

Oh, that's right.

By their father or their brother.

It's such a suffocating cruelty.

These rules are so extremely cruel and extremely binding in that sense that it's quite understandable for somebody to be born in such a family.

to almost feel that there's no way out.

I hope that the message of the book, definitely not to stigmatize Calabrian people, definitely not to also believe that all we have to do is now put all these criminals behind bars, because that's already happening.

most part in Italy, and it's not resolving the problem.

I mean, there's less people being killed in Italy.

There's a lot of people in jail.

But when they come out, they just go back again because that's what is expected of them.

So really what we need to do is to and I think I will focus more about that in my in newer work is trying to find

a more of a holistic approach to resolving these issues.