{"id":13222,"date":"2017-12-28T14:25:59","date_gmt":"2017-12-28T20:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=13222"},"modified":"2017-12-28T14:25:59","modified_gmt":"2017-12-28T20:25:59","slug":"book-28-of-52-the-leftovers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/book-28-of-52-the-leftovers\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 28 (of 52) &#8211; The Leftovers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_13223\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/theleftovers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13223\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13223\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/theleftovers.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/theleftovers.jpg 350w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/theleftovers-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13223\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Leftovers &#8211; Tom Perrotta<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Following the end of the television show on HBO earlier this year, I was interested in the book that started it all.\u00a0 Loosely adapted as the first season of the show, <em>The Leftovers<\/em> tells the story of a small town three years after a rapture-like event causes people to disappear.\u00a0 Some, like Nora Durst, lost their entire family.\u00a0 Some, like Laurie Garvey, don&#8217;t know how to cope with the new world order and leave their family to join a cult.\u00a0 Others, like Kevin and Jill Garvey, learn to deal with the losses around them.<\/p>\n<p>It had been a few years since the first season of the show aired, so, aside from the characters, I wasn&#8217;t too familiar with the beats of the tale.\u00a0 While there were obviously some liberties taken in the adaptation, the book brings you back to a simpler time, just as everyone is starting to really deal with the events of October 14.<\/p>\n<p>This was my first experience with Perrotta&#8217;s work, though it appears that I&#8217;ve seen movie adaptations of some of his other books.\u00a0 I may try to track down some of those other books and see if the experience is as good as this one.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the end of the television show on HBO earlier this year, I was interested in the book that started it all.\u00a0 Loosely adapted as the first season of the show, The Leftovers tells the story of a small town three years after a rapture-like event causes people to disappear.\u00a0 Some, like Nora Durst, lost [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[2937,5901,7655],"class_list":["post-13222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-hbo","tag-the-leftovers","tag-tom-perrotta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13224,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13222\/revisions\/13224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}