{"product_id":"ghost-town-tom-perrotta-hardcover","title":"Ghost Town -- Tom Perrotta, Hardcover","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eNow in paperback, a gripping and darkly nostalgic tale, \"Perrotta at his finest\" (Ron Charles), 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\/strong\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e As 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, \u003ci\u003eGhost Town\u003c\/i\u003e is an \"emotional wallop [that] nails the restless ennui of adolescence\" (\u003ci\u003ePeople Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e), revealing how the past haunts the present and the way our ghosts are always with us, even when we think we've left them behind.\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Tom Perrotta\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Scribner Book Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 4\/28\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/strong\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWeight:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.96 lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSize:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9.22\" H x 6.45\" L x 1.08\" W\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9781668080634\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kotton Kandy Skies","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53358534590763,"sku":"9781668080634","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0962\/2978\/5899\/files\/9781668080634_1a28edbe-f282-48ba-8592-328b6e880676.jpg?v=1780942711","url":"https:\/\/2trc11-eq.myshopify.com\/products\/ghost-town-tom-perrotta-hardcover","provider":"Kotton Kandy Skies","version":"1.0","type":"link"}