{"product_id":"little-children","title":"Little Children","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eUnexpectedly suspenseful, but written with all the fluency and dark humor of Tom Perrotta's \u003ci\u003eThe Wishbones\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eJoe College\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLittle Children\u003c\/i\u003e exposes the adult dramas unfolding amidst the swingsets and slides of an ordinary American playground. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTom 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThey 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePerrotta received Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations for best screenplay for t\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ehe film adaptation of\u003ci\u003e Little Children\u003c\/i\u003e, which was directed by Todd Field and starred Kate Winslet and Jennifer Connelly.\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Tom Perrotta","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43241302851811,"sku":"9780312315733","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0356\/3906\/6759\/products\/9780312315733-us.jpg?v=1660757419","url":"https:\/\/littleprofessorbookshop.com\/products\/little-children","provider":"Little Professor","version":"1.0","type":"link"}