A review by aleffert
The Golden House by Salman Rushdie

4.0

Picked this up because I went to see Rushdie do a reading from it. He's very charming in person. This book however is less charming. Rushdie is too good to write a bad book, but this story of rich people trying to transform themselves into different rich people really didn't do anything for me. It was interesting to see Rushdie work out his thoughts about gender through a sympathetically portrayed trans character. He tries to get at a fundamental thematic question which he hits you over the head with: "Is it possible for a man to be a good man when he is also a bad man?" But like, shrug? Sure?