Little Children

A group of parents, trapped in middle-class stability, deal with marriage, kids and their suburban life in very different ways.

Todd, the handsome stay-at-home-dad - the one all the playground Moms admire in a silent look-but-do-not-touch fashion. He's trying (for his wife's sake) to pass his bar exam although he blatantly doesn't want to be a lawyer, and in a desperate attempt to reclaim his youth joins a midnight touch-football team.and starts a passionate affair with Sarah. Sarah is a lapsed feminist who isn't quite sure how she ended up being a traditional wife. She's the kind of mother who (shock horror) is capable of forgetting her daughter's snack, and in a moment's rebellion dares to kiss Todd in front of the mother's group.



Tom Perrotta is the author of several works of fiction, including

Joe College and

Election, which was made into the acclaimed 1999 movie starring Reese Witherspoon and Matthew Broderick. Perrotta has taught expository writing at Yale and Harvard University. Tom lives with this wife and two children in Belmont, Massachusetts.