One of his characters takes to obsessively watching the kid's show loved by her missing children and is named (*) Nora Durst; Nora develops a relationship with a mayor of Mapleton who has to deal with the Guilty Remnant.
His most recent novel has a character who considers herself "part of a hipster reverse migration" from Brooklyn to the suburbs of Haddington; that novel's title character, Eve, takes a Gender and Society class and becomes obsessed with amateur porn after receiving a text message "U r my MILF!". He wrote of a divorced sex-ed instructor in The Abstinence Teacher and wrote Mrs. Fltecher. One of his characters takes to obsessively watching the kid's show loved by her missing children and is named (*) Nora Durst; Nora develops a relationship with a mayor of Mapleton who has to deal with the Guilty Remnant. His best-known novel was adapted into an acclaimed but little-watched HBO series co-created by Lost's Damon Lindelof and starring Justin Theroux; that novel centers on the mysterious disappearance of 2% of the world's population. For 10 points, name this author of The Leftovers.
His most recent novel has a character who considers herself "part of a hipster reverse migration" from Brooklyn to the suburbs of Haddington; that novel's title character, Eve, takes a Gender and Society class and becomes obsessed with amateur porn after receiving a text message "U r my MILF!".
Tom Perrotta [or Thomas R. Perrotta]