The Stranger (not the Billy Joel song!)

We'll visit France this time with Albert Camus' The Stranger. This was his first and most widely acclaimed novel, largely attributed as winning him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957.

It's core philosophical idea that the universe is indifferent to human meaning-making, and that humans nonetheless keep searching for meaning, logic, and order anyway. It's not very long, and should make for a great conversation!