TOM PERROTTA
Tuesday, January 25 at 7:30 p.m.

Tom Perrotta’s Little Children (new in paper, Picador) was one of last year’s most acclaimed novels, a quiet, dark, often funny novel people ostensibly where they should be in life—but going astray. "The characters in this intelligent, absorbing tale of suburban angst are constrained and defined by their relationship to children . . . In the midst of this universe of mild to fulminating family dysfunction, Sarah and Todd drift off into an affair that recaptures the passion of adolescence, that fleeting liminal period of freedom and possibility between the dutiful rigidities of childhood and parenthood. Perrotta (Election; Joe College) views his characters with a funny, acute and sympathetic eye, using the well-observed antics of preschoolers as a telling backdrop to their parents’ botched transitions into adulthood. Once again, he proves himself an expert at explaining the roiling psychological depths beneath the placid surface of suburbia." - Publishers Weekly.

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