"What Doust Thou Think? Thou Canst Do Any Goddamn Thing Thou Wantest? Who the Fuck Doust Though Imagine Thou Ist: Hugh Hefner? The Dalai Lama? Donald Trump?

-Salman Rushdie, Fury

Midway through Eduardo Berti's Agua, but thought it apt and timely to switch over to Salman Rushdie's Fury. This is said to be Rushdie's first American novel. Published in 2001, Fury is the story of Malik Solanka, historian of ideas and dollmaker extraordinaire, who abandons his family without a word of explanation and flees to New York where he encounters fury all around him. "Cab drivers spout invective. A serial killer is murdering women with a lump of concrete..."