A group of young suburban parents, including a handsome stay-at-home dad, a former feminist, an Internet surfer, and an over-structured mom, finds its sleepy existence shattered when a convicted child molester moves back into town and...

"Perrotta is that rare combination: a satirist with heart….Those who haven't curled up on the couch with this writer's books are missing a very great pleasure."—Seattle TimesStonewood Heights is the perfect place to rais...

In a suburban town, Sarah betrays her unsatisfactory husband by having an affair with Todd, whose wife is having her own qualms about their marriage. Todd’s friend Larry is an ex-cop with a violent streak that surfaces when a co...

In this political satire--which is, hilariously, about an election for school president in a New Jersey high school--the narrative alternates among the six candidates, who range from a maniacally ambitious girl named Tracy, to a reluc...

A New York Times Notable Book for 2011 A Washington Post Notable Fiction Book for 2011 The New York Times bestseller now in paperback—A thought-provoking engrossing novel about love, connection, and loss from the author of The Abst...

Tom Perrotta's first novel, The Wishbones, is all about that much-maligned class of 30-ish men who still live at home with their parents, guys who make furtive love to their girlfriends--if they have them at all--in the basement rec r...

Soon to be an HBO series starring Kathryn Hahn!“Light, zingy, and laugh-out-loud funny” (People), the New York Times bestselling novel about sex, love, and identity as seen through the eyes of a middle-aged woman and her college f...

Nine Inches, Tom Perrotta's first true collection, features ten stories—some sharp and funny, some mordant and surprising, and a few intense and disturbing.   Whether he's dropping into the lives of two teachers—and their love l...

It’s the early ’80s, and Danny, an upwardly mobile Yale student intoxicated with Ivy League life, is in love with Polly, a glamorous and elusive classmate whose background is very different from his own. He spends his vaca...