Tom Perrotta: Live at Politics and Prose

Perrotta’s seventh novel tells the dual coming-of-age stories of Eve Fletcher and her son. Eve, executive director of a senior center, adjusts to her empty nest and tests the limits of her new freedom by taking a course on gender. But she’s more interested in porn websites and may even have attracted a cyberstalker. Meanwhile her son Brendan, a freshman, is jolted by the reality of a college life that’s less indulgent of his privileged attitudes than he had anticipated. As the two struggle with the unexpected consequences of their behavior, Perrotta, author of _Election_, _Little Children_, and _The Leftovers_, the basis for the HBO series of the same name, paints a sharp, insightful, and very funny picture of life in the digital era.