Little Children: A Novel
by Tom Perrotta
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Author: Tom PerrottaEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2005-01-01
ISBN: 0312315732
Number of pages: 368
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
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Book Review: A Cute, Well-Written Story of Life and Love
Summary: 5 Stars
While it is easy to assign any number of thoughtful, complimentary clichés to this book, I will simply begin with the fact that this was a pure impulse buy that I was happy to have made in retrospect. Perrotta, an author I previously knew nothing about, does a spectacular job at telling a story that is reasonably complicated with a cute serving of real-life emotion.
Focused primarily on the happenstance meeting and subsequent relationship of two "stay-at-home parents" (one a mother, the other a father), this story shows the complications that accompany much of life. Romance stirs as the result of frustration rooted in complacency that invigorates the two who engage in a summer romance leading toward the leaving of their significant others - all while toting their respective 3-year-olds to and fro among the menial tasks of managing a toddler's summer itinerary.
While this is not the once-in-a-lifetime Pulitzer-winning novel, it is also not the run-of-the-mill slosh that occupies a significant amount of space on the bookstore shelf. This is a fresh, engaging, cute, and "real" (as real as it can be) book. A nice book for a rainy day or a day at the beach. Give it a try!
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