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Reading Sofia Samatar’s “The White Mosque”
As we follow Samatar, following the band of travelers, deeper into this unfamiliar distant land, it all begins to feel a little Tolkien-esque. she describes “an atmosphere of wonder and terror”, and says the pilgrims had a “sense of weird, excessive experience”.