RaveThe Pittsburgh Post-GazetteThat's the world inhabited by the characters in Tom Perrotta's new novel about fear and parenting in suburbia ...Perrotta's interest lies in those moments when an otherwise uneventful life seemingly drained of all potential for surprises takes an unexpected turn and suddenly the characters are in uncharted shadowy territory ... Much like Chekhov's gun, a convicted pedophile introduced early in a novel must 'go off' by book's end. It is a testament to Perrotta's skill as a writer and his compassion for his characters that what follows is never obvious ... With this novel, Perrotta has entered the land of Updike and Cheever, the messy world of adults who cheat on spouses and fail their children, but, unlike those excellent authors who staked out the territory, Perrotta's excursion does not leave an aftertaste of bitterness that is so much a part of those writers' work.