I bought this book on Amazon, not knowing anything about it except that it was highly recommended by Amazon. Also, the fact that a book reviewer compared Henry House to Garp made it a lot more attractive to me.
This is the story of Henry House, who was a "practice" baby in a college home economics program. Apparently, colleges used to offer classes on how to raise babies, clean houses, etc. There's no big surprise to me there. What was surprising was that these colleges would take an orphan baby and then have a group of college students take turns being this babies mother. Then, when the child was a year old, they would give the baby back to the orphanage. Wow! That's a little shocking, don't you think?! Henry was one of these babies who now struggles with feeling abandoned, lost, and mistrustful of women. Of course, he doesn't know that he's struggling with these feelings...he's just an ass.
I really liked this book, even though the main character was not a typical protagonist. Recommended!
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