The Leftovers by Tom Perrotta

    What if—whoosh, right now, with no explanation—a number of us simply vanished?  Would some of us collapse? Would others of us go on, one foot in front of the other, as we did before the world turned upside down?       

  That's the premise of Tom Perrotta's latest novel, The Leftovers, which examines the aftermath of an unexplained rapturelike event in which millions of people around the globe inexplicably disappear into thin air.

Perrotta has delivered a troubling disquisition on how ordinary people react to extraordinary and inexplicable events, the power of family to hurt and to heal, and the unobtrusive ease with which faith can slide into fanaticism. “The Leftovers” is, simply put, the best “Twilight Zone” episode you never saw — not “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street” but “The Monsters Are Us in Mapleton.” That they are quiet monsters only makes them more eerie.

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  • Thanks Rosanna.  WWB

  • Thanks for the book. File 07 of The Leftovers only plays for eight minutes, please upload new file

    • Did a quick check and I found the same problem with file 7.

  • Thanks for this--soon to be a major motion picture!
    Well, a miniseries from HBO...
    http://m.imdb.com/title/tt2699128/
  • Thank you.

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