The World According to Garp

A nurse during World War II, Jenny Fields conceives with a dying pilot and bears a boy named T.S. Garp whom she raises alone. When Garp grows up, he has some success writing fiction, but not nearly so much as his mother has with feminist-themed nonfiction. Rich and famous, she starts a center for troubled women, and while Garp marries and has children, he remains a constant, if somewhat critical, observer of the strange community that forms around Jenny.