Anna –Rushdie- 2/28

I'm having some trouble figuring out what Rushdie is doing, for a book that I began reading as sheer genius, and though I still think that on a large scale it is, (and even in the tiniest of details- also brilliant) it is very difficult to string at one time, more than one theme along, for example wondering about the witchcraft brew Padma brings home for the author for his fertility that sends him into fever (the heck does that mean?) and then the Evie American with the bicycles and all the commentary on race and children (innocence but also play and violence) this brings up, to the using of famous gods with well known characteristics to be devious characters, to falling in love with the ugly bits of people. So much action and metaphor and detail, so little explanation. I latched onto one line where Rushdie said (I paraphrase) reality can have metaphorical bits but this does not make it less real. This is what I latch onto. Oh and I really like how when he falls in love with Evie its because she is both snake and ladder, of course.