RaveThe New York TimesSo what a wicked joy it is to welcome to town Little Children, Tom Perrotta's extraordinary novel about adultery and child-raising in a generic American suburb that seems to be somewhere outside Boston. It represents a sterling comic contribution to the growing literature of the Bad Mommy and the Bad Daddy ... So the novel begins, and right away the amused tenderness of Perrotta's satire should be evident. His judgments about his characters are acerbic and yet somehow land upon them as lightly as a blanket on a baby ... Families, in the view of Perrotta's men and women, are misbegotten alliances, hothouses of boredom, nurseries of disappointment ... Little Children raises the question of how a writer can be so entertainingly vicious and yet so full of fellow feeling. Bracingly tender moments stud Perrotta's satire.