false 37426 23 Tom Perrotta's thirty-ish parents of young children are a varied and surprising bunch. There's Todd, the handsome stay-at-home dad dubbed "The Prom King" by the moms of the playground; Sarah, a lapsed feminist with a bisexual past, who seems to have stumbled into a traditional marriage; Richard, Sarah's husband, who has found himself more and more involved with a fantasy life on the internet than with the flesh and blood in his own house; and Mary Ann, who thinks she has it all figured out, down to scheduling a weekly roll in the hay with her husband, every Tuesday at 9pm. They all raise their kids in the kind of sleepy American suburb where nothing ever seems to happen-at least until one eventful summer, when a convicted child molester moves back to town, and two restless parents begin an affair that goes further than either of them could have imagined. Unexpectedly suspenseful, but written with all the fluency and dark humor of Perrotta's previous novels, Little Children exposes the adult dramas unfolding amidst the swingsets and slides of an ordinary American playground. 828476 2004 Little Children total:8031|5:1156|4:3175|3:2672|2:800|1:228| 8031 28324 9955 1021 2 6 false false Wed May 30 11:05:16 -0700 2007 Tue Jul 31 06:41:30 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 6 false false Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu Apr 19 15:56:39 -0700 2007 Thu Apr 19 17:34:13 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 5 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Jun 22 13:43:49 -0700 2007 Fri Jun 22 13:48:53 -0700 2007
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I liked this book very much as I thought it was a morally ambiguous story. It delves deeper into the characters' various stories.

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Little Children is a fantastic book to read when you're in your mid-to-late 20's-early 30's. There was something about the book to me that made me very uncomfort...more...]]> 4 1 false false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Mar 25 23:14:16 -0700 2008 Thu May 08 11:55:33 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 12 08:44:19 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 15 08:54:10 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 19 00:30:52 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 27 02:00:24 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Wed Nov 14 08:00:10 -0800 2007 Wed Nov 14 08:00:10 -0800 2007 more...]]> 5 1 false false Thu Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sun Aug 26 16:14:00 -0700 2007 Thu May 08 21:40:15 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Aug 24 18:06:00 -0700 2007 Sat Sep 29 10:46:19 -0700 2007
Quotes from the book:

"It wasn't that easy to tell one weekday from the next anymore; they all just melted together li...more...]]> 5 1 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Jun 18 11:55:36 -0700 2007 Sat Sep 15 13:49:21 -0700 2007 Little Children the benefit of the doubt. From the get go, ...more...]]>