Inside Hanif Kureishi’s Shattered: A Raw Journey Through Fame, Family, and Fragility
Reviewed by Sara Pisak
It’s fair to say that after a fall on Boxing Day while in Rome, Hanif Kureishi felt his life and the lives of those around him had been shattered. Both typographically and metaphorically, the cover of his memoir tells the reader as much with “hanif kureishi. shattered. a memoir” highlighted in a found poetry of realization. However, what is also made clear, not only by the memoir’s cover, but by Kureishi’s enclosed “dispatches,” is that his self-expression through writing has not been shattered.
