This is my first Rushdie 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

There is Seinfeld and Myanmar (Aung San Simeon Kyi) and Jedi and Bob Dylan and Krypton and Caesar and ping pong and Frankenstein and Werner Herzog and the Vagina Monologues and Nurse Ratched and Don Corleone and Monty Python and Barack Obama and Nine Inch Nails and Gatsby and the Odyssey AND MORE.

I'm totally enamored. Took about 20 pages to get used to his slow, wordy style and then I fell head over heels into the story he expertly twisted from real events/places into a lovely, timely tale.

There are some beautiful guts at the heart of this story, told by "René" the screenwriter. I wasn't sure at times if I was reading true observations or his idealized versions of the characters, and I didn't care. I was happily along for the ride. Startled at the thorough detail of histories of cinema, myths, literature, music- and of course the bold comparisons to the 2016 election: Batwoman vs. the Joker.

This was an excellent pairing to HRC's What Happened.