'The Rachel Incident' looks back on early-20s friendships, love and mistakes
Podcast: NPR's Book of the DayPublished On: Sat Dec 16 2023
Description: The novel The Rachel Incident is rooted around a wonderful, messy friendship. Rachel and James live together, party, and get themselves into a peculiar situation with an older married couple. In today's episode, author Caroline O'Donoghue speaks with NPR's Miles Parks about how abortion and sexual repression in Irish society play a large role in Rachel's early adulthood. O'Donoghue also shares why it was important to her that the novel be told from an older Rachel's perspective, reflecting on her youth.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
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