I loved this book. Haunting prose. Exotic locale. Existentialist themes. I stayed up much too late to read it,  enchanted – entranced even –  only to wake up with bags under my eyes and vague memories of desert-sun dreams.

The Sheltering Sky, by Paul Bowles, is an incredible story of two people wrestling with (and running from) their freedom, as they rush about between desert towns, chasing a specter as ephemeral as the sand djinn, themselves – their love for each other.