March 2022, Frankfurt. In a Neapolitan restaurant, they call me Palermitana,
“a woman of the mafia,” after I ask what’s inside the arancina.
April 2022, Frankfurt. They tell me I’m a busta mista - a metaphor meaning
I have more than one nationality in my blood.
May 2022, Frankfurt. At work, they call me mafiosa. Just as a joke, they say.
I tell them I’m Sicilian, but not a mafiosa.
Samantha Alioto Torres
1. Edition 04/2025
Text by Samantha Alioto
Book Design by Samantha Alioto 164 pages
16 x 20 cm
36 color photographs
Softcover + dust jacket
Digital print ISBN 979-12-80423-89-4