{"product_id":"ghost-town-a-novel","title":"Ghost Town: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(43, 0, 255);\"\u003ePublish Date: April 28, 2026\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ebestselling author Tom Perrotta, hailed by critics as “the Steinbeck of Suburbia” (\u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e), “our Balzac of the burbs” (\u003ci\u003eChicago Sun-Times\u003c\/i\u003e), and “an American Chekhov” (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e), comes a gripping and darkly nostalgic tale about a tumultuous summer in 1970s suburban New Jersey, from the perspective of a middle-aged writer looking back on a series of events that changed his life—and the story he finally has the courage to tell.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJimmy Perrini lives in 1970s suburban New Jersey, a few miles from Manhattan, but a world apart. At the end of eighth grade, after tragedy strikes, Jimmy finds himself lost in a fog of grief that alienates him from friends and family, drifting instead into troubling friendships with two older teenagers: one a notorious local burnout with a fast car, an endless supply of weed, and a shaky grasp of reality; the other a smart, eccentric girl, whom Jimmy finds himself drawn to as they become entranced by her Ouija board, which may just offer the only salve to their grief.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAs a fateful public drama unfolds, Jimmy is torn between the occult beyond and the cold realities of the place he has called home. Narrated by a much older Jimmy, a literary-turned-commercial novelist, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eGhost Town\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e reveals how the past haunts the present—the way our ghosts are always with us, even when we think we’ve left them behind.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #e06666;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/shop.nypl.org\/products\/book-stamping\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/shop.nypl.org\/products\/book-stamping\u0026amp;source=gmail\u0026amp;ust=1558193756111000\u0026amp;usg=AFQjCNE4SBzn1k3TNa_tCQWi89X-mAVqzQ\" style=\"color: #e06666;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eGet your Book Stamped for Free\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"text\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCollaborators:\u003c\/b\u003e Tom Perrotta (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eType:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages: \u003c\/b\u003e288\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eItem Number: 9781668080634\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51755925799232,"sku":"9781668080634","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0953\/4528\/files\/ghost-town.jpg?v=1775744536","url":"https:\/\/shop.nypl.org\/products\/ghost-town-a-novel","provider":"The New York Public Library Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}