Status Updates From Acht maanden in de Gazastraat

Well, it's switched from travelogue to mystery novel... Getting a better understanding of F & A's statelessness. The toxic expat social circle matches what I've heard.

At about 25% through, it impresses me as a VERY accurate view of Jedda toward the end of the 20th century. I was there very briefly with my wife a decade later, and it rings very true. Our personal reaction was not so negative, perhaps because of our shorter exposure, but also, for my wife, of her disinclinication to take Saudi insistence on external forms in a personal way. The visceral reaction of both Frances and