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Jun 27, 2014 this is the gently unnerving postapocalyptic world that tom perrotta creates in his novel the leftovers, which was published in 2011 and serves as the basis for an hbo series debuting this. Fletcher, a new comedy series starring kathryn hahn as a divorced mother with a collegeaged son in what is being described as a dual comingofage story. Jun 05, 2017 closing the book on the leftovers the series must be a uniquely meaningful experience for tom perrotta, who wrote the original novel from which the tv series is based, and who has been a cowriter. The leftovers author tom perrotta had no such worries.
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