Nice things: digging a tunnel making way for the water; becoming friends
with someone who has a dinghy boat; digging a hole and hiding it with a
towel; looking at the face of someone falling into the hole; classifying bellies and bums. Not nice things: being stung
by a jellyfish; getting out of the sea because lips have turned blue; cleaning up their feet; being quite. A little girl moves away from her family’s beach umbrella and, as she gets lost, she starts observing everything around her.
In spiaggia is a stunning book by Susanna Mattiangeli and Vessela Nikolova, refined, unmatchable observers of human beings.