{"id":16386,"date":"2020-07-20T09:04:02","date_gmt":"2020-07-20T15:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=16386"},"modified":"2020-07-15T15:38:06","modified_gmt":"2020-07-15T21:38:06","slug":"book-12-of-52-little-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/book-12-of-52-little-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 12 (of 52) &#8211; Little Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_16388\" style=\"width: 334px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/littlechildren.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16388\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16388\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/littlechildren.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"324\" height=\"499\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/littlechildren.jpg 324w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/littlechildren-195x300.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 324px) 100vw, 324px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16388\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Little Children &#8211; Tom Perotta<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In <em>Little Children<\/em>, Tom Perrotta tells us the tale of Sarah, a young housewife who spends her days at the playground with a group of mothers she can&#8217;t stand. When she meets Todd, a handsome young stay-at-home dad, they begin an affair that threatens both of their marriages, neither of which may be worth saving.\u00a0 Will they throw it all away and run away together?\u00a0 Or will they stay in their broken marriages for the sake of their children?\u00a0 And where does the broken former policeman and the convicted sex offender he is obsessed with fit in?<\/p>\n<p>I saw the movie version of this years ago and was familiar with the basics of the plot, but any details had long since left my mind.\u00a0 When I saw the book on sale on the Kindle store, I decided to give it a shot given my recent experiences with Perrotta&#8217;s work and the HBO translations.\u00a0 And, I was not disappointed.\u00a0 Perrotta is quickly becoming one of my go-to authors, especially in the non-genre fields.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t think I have anything else of his queued up on the Kindle, so I&#8217;ll have to keep a look out.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Little Children, Tom Perrotta tells us the tale of Sarah, a young housewife who spends her days at the playground with a group of mothers she can&#8217;t stand. When she meets Todd, a handsome young stay-at-home dad, they begin an affair that threatens both of their marriages, neither of which may be worth saving.\u00a0 [&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":[2937,2889,9019,7655],"class_list":["post-16386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-hbo","tag-kindle","tag-little-children","tag-tom-perrotta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16386","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=16386"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16390,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16386\/revisions\/16390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}