{"product_id":"ghost-town","title":"Ghost Town","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eFrom\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ebestselling author Tom Perrotta, hailed by critics as “the Steinbeck of Suburbia” (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eTime\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e), “our Balzac of the burbs” (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eChicago Sun-Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e), and “an American Chekhov” (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\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\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eGhost Town\u003c\/span\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","brand":"Words on Pages Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53330982240621,"sku":null,"price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0933\/7700\/3885\/files\/ghost_24e3b17a-d8c2-453e-a234-352a029fbf7e.jpg?v=1778774624","url":"https:\/\/www.wordsonpagesbookshop.com\/products\/ghost-town","provider":"Words on Pages Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}