The Golden House: A Novel

"One of Salman Rushdie’s characters in The Golden House tells an American, “Your country is young – one thinks differently when one has millennia behind one; you have not even 250 years.” Rushdie has experience with ancient countries, having lived in and written about India and the U.K. This book follows a wealthy Bombay family that moves to New York just as Barack Obama becomes president. It’s deeply American, with themes of reinvention and immigration. At the same time, The Golden House is unmistakably Rushdie, packed with pop culture references and mythological tropes, telling an archetypical story in a way that feels new."