A review by edamamebean
Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie

dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

This was one of my most anticipated books of the year and I’m so glad the audiobook finally came through on libby. It was hard not to get emotional listening to Rushdie’s story. He describes traumatic incident after traumatic incident with such authorial grace and even humor. The heart of this book is actually the love story between him and his wife, poet Rachel Eliza Griffiths, which was really beautiful. Rushdie also talked a lot about something that has been on my mind lately (and the minds of many Americans these days), which is the violence of religious extremism. He writes about it very thoughtfully, which makes sense since religious extremism has affected huge parts of his life. I think everyone should read this book. 
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