joaniesickler 's review for:

Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
3.0

Whew. It's not easy reading. Parts flow hysterically well. Others are so fragmented and depressing it's hard to stay with it. But I had to since my stepdaughter's Charter School 12th graders read it over the summer. Surely I could too. It was a rich experience and a drenching in Rushdie's early writing, which is truly extraordinary. Worth the work to read this one.