Bravo, Rufi Thorpe!

I didn’t think I’d like Rufi Thorpe’s Margo’s Got Money Troubles nearly this much, when I checked it out of the library.

Not even sure how I heard about it–probably a mention in The New York Times. Sounded like a fun read--a frivolous lark. Something that might make me laugh.

So, I checked it out and discovered, to my pleasant surprise, it wasn't frivolous at all. It was deceptively deep. With much to say about our fraudulent times.

Now I can’t stop talking about it. Asking people–hey, man, have you read Margo yet?

No? Well, hurry up! So I have someone to talk to about it.

Tell you what–life can be lonely when you’re the only member in a book club of one.

Without giving away too many details, the book’s basics are…

Margo is a 20-year-old junior-college drop out, who gets knocked up by her English professor and, against all advice, decides to have the baby.

If the book has a central theme it's this…

The world's filled with people who are full of shit.

More precisely, they’re shameless hypocrites when it comes to their attitudes toward adultery, abortion, sex workers, porn and, the big one–their love for the fetus as opposed to their indifference to the newborn baby and their contempt for that newborn’s mother.

Take a bow, Rufi Thorpe...

There’s an epic tangent about immaculate conception, which features an imagined conversation between Mary and Joseph as she tells him she’s pregnant and he’s not the father. God is. As opposed to her having slept around.

A crime for which Mary would have been stoned to death. 

Hold on, while I go on tangent of my own…

Trump had sex with Stormy Daniels just a few months after Melania gave birth to Barron. But far from being stoned. Trump got elected president–twice. Winning the votes of many people who want the Ten Commandments posted in classrooms in public schools. Including the commandment that says “thou shalt not commit adultery.”

Hold on, again! Breaking news…

My friend, Joan, tells me Apple-TV is making a series based on Margo starring Elle Fanning, Nicole Kidman, Nick Offerman, Michelle Pfeiffer and Greg Kinnear.

What a cast!

I urge everyone to read Rufi Thorpe’s book so you have an experience undiluted, one way or another, by whatever Hollywood does to it.