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jcvan 's review for:

The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles
5.0

Mild spoiler… My experience of this book is heavily based on the protagonist’s journey from spoken language to a non-English world in which spoken and written language no longer work for her. Her worldly experience becomes more direct in the absence of the filters of language we over rely on in our day to day lives out of expediency.