“Petralia Sottana is one of the villages in Sicily that is starving out. The writer who wants to take a closer look at the disaster is always also a disaster tourist, but the closer I get to Petralia Sottana, the more I wonder whether 'disaster' is the right word. Like 'crisis', it is used too many times. What isn't a disaster these days?”

For the The Passenger Magazine, Arnon Grunberg wrote a report about the population decline in Sicily, the elderly care provider of the future and sympathetic initiatives to reverse the demographic disaster.