Mrs Fletcher

Mrs. Fletcher, Perrotta’s seventh novel and first since 2011’s The Leftovers, operates and succeeds in ways that will be pleasingly familiar to his admirers. It uses a fecund premise, a large cast of recognizable characters, a rotating point of view, a propulsive plot, a humane vision and clean, non-ostentatious … prose to explore a fraught cultural topic. There be dragons, yes, but decency mitigates the danger. Mrs. Fletcher is the sweetest and most charming novel about pornography addiction and the harrowing issues of sexual consent that you will probably ever read. - The New York Times Book Review

[Perrotta] explores the redefining of American sex lives by technology… . Mrs. Fletcher is a wry, compassionate novel about the ramifications of porn filtering so effortlessly into mainstream culture, without hysteria or accusations. Perrotta [is] well-versed in capturing the manifold follies and fetishes of human behavior… . One of the sharpest elements of Mrs. Fletcher is how Perrotta presents two opposing forces colliding on campus: porn culture and PC culture. - The Atlantic

At times morbidly funny and, at others, grim, “Mrs. Fletcher” signals a return to familiar territory for Mr. Perrotta - sex, school and suburbia … While “Mrs. Fletcher” may sound, from a plot summary, like an R-rated comedy or the outline for a raunchy Judd Apatow movie, it is more melancholy than many of his earlier books. Sex and pornography often serve as shorthand for characters’ loneliness and their search for self-worth. - The New York Times

Light, zingy, and laugh-out-loud funny. - People

The sinews of Perrotta’s fiction, rather, are the tensions within and between characters, tensions that he steadily and artfully amplifies until the reader becomes possessed by curiosity about how they’ll be resolved … “Mrs. Fletcher” is lit up by flashes of acute observation. - The New Yorker

[A] fantastic tease … [Perrotta] knows how to capture the hilarious contradictions of teenagers. - The Washington Post

From the thrill of learning of its existence, to the feverish turning of pages, to the contemplative afterglow that comes from having finished: there’s nothing like a new Tom Perrotta novel. Mrs. Fletcher is all you dream it will be: hilarious, provocative (a little too), relatable, and every moment a joy ride. - Maria Semple, bestselling author of Where d You Go, Bernadette and Today Will Be Different

Tom Perrotta has to be considered one of our true genius satirists. - Dennis Lehane, author of Mystic River