Everyday People, Extraordinary Books

Daniel D’Addario, Time
Sun, 12/02/2001 - 5:00pm

Tom Perrotta has documented decades’ worth of social issues in deceptively domestic novels. He addressed modern parenting in 2004’s Little Children, the Christian right in 2007’s The Abstinence Teacher and the response to grief in 2011’s The Leftovers. All those works take place in suburban America and have at their centers workaday folks living against the backdrop of sweeping change.

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