Marco Campogiani, “Smalltown boy”

“When we were Us, and the world stood outside, everything was light, and as if slippery, while now I can’t take a step.”

In the end, they are still Babi and Step, in the end it is still “another love story”. And yet …

“Smalltown boy”, by Marco Campogiani, finalist at the XXVI Calvino prize, is part of the trend of young adult love but, above all, of the search for sexual identity, now so much in vogue. It does so with a slight, almost tragicomic attack, as if we were, in fact, still “three meters above the sky”, then, however, it grows towards…