35: The World According to Garp - Malavika Praseed of YOUR FAVORITE BOOK

CW: Rape, self-mutilation, adultery, racism, transphobia

This week, Malavika joins us to discuss some 1970s wackiness with John Irving's most famous novel, THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP. It's a book about feminism. Sort of.

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Summary

Jenny Fields is the daughter of a well-to-do New England family who wants to become a mother, but never a wife. After becoming a nurse during WWII, she rapes a dying man and gives birth to a son, whom she names after the man who fathered him– Technical Sergeant Garp. T.S. Garp is raised at an all-boys boarding school my his controlling mother, becomes a champion wrestler, marries the coach's daughter, Helen, and goes on to become a writer, in the footsteps of his mother, who penned a best-selling feminist treatise. Garp's sexual affairs and impolitic demeanor leads to the early demise of several characters.

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