Quasi niente sbagliato

Brianza, a land of uncertain borders, a landscape of asphalt and warehouses, a wealthy province where religious devotion to work seems to be the only recognised parameter for defining relationships and identity. But for Margherita, born in 1990 into one of the many families from the Veneto region who emigrated to Lombardy in the post-war period, well-being is a chimera to be contemplated from afar. Exhausted by the succession of jobs with no prospects and to which she seems destined only as a woman, emptied by the constant threat of precariousness and debased by an ambiguous humanity, made up of characters in which guilt and innocence harbour at one and the same time, for Margherita only the dream of escape remains. She cultivates an obsession with Milan, attractive as a promised land, and a job as a journalist, perhaps the only chance left to try to make her voice heard. And the only alternative to the violence that, drop by drop, almost nothing, threatens to turn her into everything she has always rejected. With Quasi niente sbagliato (Almost Nothing Wrong) Greta Pavan has written a novel of formation, an authentic generational cross-section, a story about belonging and self-affirmation that tries to answer an existential question: whether evil is what we receive or what we carry within us.