Shriver has drawn lines between appropriation and oversensitivity. In her 15th novel, she sees a world where stupidity is exalted.
It began with a sombrero. In 2016, the novelist Lionel Shriver showed up at the Brisbane Writers Festival in Australia wearing an ostentatiously large straw variation of the traditional Mexican headgear. Shriver is not Mexican; that was the point.
The novel begins in 2011, with Darwin having been reprimanded for using an unpardonable imprecation at school: “stupid.” Much of the plot concerns Converse’s relationship with her friend Emory Ruth, a radio host who is willing to play along with the Mental Parity regime to advance her career. Converse is not willing to do the same, and instead takes a dangerous but, in her view, necessary stance against a movement she deems — and, yes, Shriver uses the word —“retarded.
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