Christina Reviews *Little Children* by Tom Perrotta

          Sarah and Brad are bored with their suburban lives.  Every day it’s the same thing.  Park, snack, home.  Park, snack, home.  Sometimes they’ll go to the pool.  Sometimes Sarah forgets the snack, and that makes her “Bad Mommy.”  But other than that, their days lack variety.

        That is, until they decide to mix things up by sleeping with each other.  Then life becomes very interesting. 

        This book isn’t just about two middle-class parents having a torrid affair.  There are a few subplots in here, including a subplot involving a pedophile who has been released from prison.  His presence in the town causes all the mothers in the park to be on red alert.

       Tom Perrotta knows how to satirize suburbia.  The characters are sometimes loathsome, but always recognizably human.  I would give this 4 stars.  The movie is good too.