Marrying Salman Rushdie was a dream. Then reality flooded in.

Poet and novelist Rachel Eliza Griffiths’s “The Flower Bearers” is an open wound of a memoir. In it, we are introduced to a talented, fragile 42-year-old woman on the eve of her marriage to the author Salman Rushdie. Griffiths writes that at the time she wanted “to be exposed and immersed in the nam...

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