America, America
Monday, July 27, 2020
WHAT kind of America is it over there in the west, sprawled between paranoia and optimism, between entropy and fantasy, with Donald Trump antagonizing all and sundry, and the cry ‘Let’s make America great again’ sounding like an old cracked record?
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Salman Rushie arrives with a novel: he does not answer these nagging questions. But in it we can glimpse a confused America—particularly in the dream of Ismail Smile, a salesman whose address is just a series of inns from the west coast to the east.
“The road was his home, that car was his living room, its trunk was his wardrobe…”
Behind the wheel of his metallic grey Chevy Cruze cruising from Arizona to New York
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