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Paul Bowles: Sheltering Sky (2006, Penguin) 4 stars

'The Sheltering Sky is a book about people on the edge of an alien space; …

Review of 'Sheltering Sky' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

I just re-read this and forgot how much I liked it. Ostensibly about three Americans traveling in North Africa, it’s really about the disorienting nihilism that comes from not having a core sense of who you are and what you value apart from the culture and people with which you surround yourself.