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Amazon has released a short podcast from Tom Perrotta’s “The Abstinence Teacher.”

The New York Times calls it a “sad-funny-touching story that looks at the frustrations and perils of life in suburbia through darkly tinted, not rose-colored glasses.”

When a sex ed teacher goes too far, according to a local church, the school sides with the church to push an abstinence curriculum. Issues and sordid histories from those on both sides all boil to the surface.

Booklist adds: “As is evident from his previous novels Election (1998) and Little Children (2004), Perotta seems to enjoy putting characters with divergent belief systems together in a bag, as it were, and shaking it up. That is the technique he uses in his latest novel, to satiric effect…A finely wrought novel that will be in demand.”

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