Once on an alligator-shaped island in the middle of a wide sea there lived a little girl named Arletis Arletis loved to study the map of her island on the wall of her third-grade classroom There she could see the shiny black dot that represented her village
Often Arletis wondered what life was like beyond her island Her whole life took place on the long unnamed street that ran in front of the unnumbered house where she lived It was a small but comfortable house and at night sleeping beside her parents and her little sister Arelis Arletis felt very safe
