nekare

I've owned Salman Rushdie's The Ground Beneath Her Feet for a few years, but I hadn't read it because it takes a certain mood to read Rushdie's books. But I'm out of books, so I open it last night and lo! it starts in the first page in my city, Guadalajara, during an invented earthquake in 1989. Color me interested!

If you were going to use an earthquake you could easily use the 1985 one, though. Even if my city didn't get hit as hard as Mexico City. Then again, apparently he was going for symbolism, as it was the same day the fatwa was issued against him. Interesting.