{"product_id":"ghost-town","title":"Ghost Town","description":"\n\u003ctable align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"productDetailSmallElements\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"This is Perrotta at his finest, working in that cramped space between crying and laughing. ...The ending is an absolute wallop, a tragedy hidden in the grass so subtly that no adolescent could have seen it coming, and no adult could ever survive it intact.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--Ron Charles\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"A writer returns to his hometown for an awards ceremony and revisits the year his mother died and the tragedies that followed. Perrotta packs an emotional wallop and nails the restless ennui of adolescence during a suburban summer ca. 1973, while evoking the scent of Coppertone and cigarette smoke.\" \n\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e--People Magazine\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"The brisk, resonant \n\u003ci\u003eGhost Town\u003c\/i\u003e might be Perrotta's best book. I've enjoyed all of his novels, but it feels like he has pared this one down to its essence, which is beautiful and true: how we stay connected to the people we've lost and how we learn to move on.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--Chris Hewitt, \u003ci\u003eMinnesota Star-Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Stellar...Perrotta is a confident storyteller, and he packs a great deal of heart into this tale of moving forward amid crushing grief, in which a writer finally gets a chance to exorcise 'the demons you think you've outrun.' This is sure to resonate with Perrotta's longtime fans and win him new ones.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e, STARRED Review\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"An atmospheric elegy to innocence lost... melancholy, moving, dark, redolent with regret and loss. His sharp characterizations and social observations serve to bemuse rather than amuse this time, but as he builds to a shocking climax, it turns out he's just as good at that.\" -- \n\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTom Perrotta is the author of eleven works of fiction, including \n\u003ci\u003eElection \u003c\/i\u003eand \n\u003ci\u003e Little Children\u003c\/i\u003e, both of which were made into Oscar-nominated films, and \n\u003ci\u003eThe Leftovers\u003c\/i\u003e and \n\u003ci\u003eMrs. Fletcher\u003c\/i\u003e, which were adapted into acclaimed HBO series. His new novel is \n\u003ci\u003e Ghost Town\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eOne of LitHub's Most Anticipated Books of 2026\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Tom Perrotta rouses the sleeping dogs of 1970s suburbia with tender complexity. \n\u003ci\u003eGhost Town \u003c\/i\u003eis a time capsule dug up behind the old high school--an artifact of a family navigating loss in a nation at the crossroads.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--Tayari Jones, author of \u003ci\u003eAn\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eAmerican Marriage\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"To readers who have not yet had the pleasure of reading Tom Perrotta's books, \n\u003ci\u003eGhost Town \u003c\/i\u003eis a beautiful introduction. If Perrotta has written grief before, though, as in \n\u003ci\u003eThe Leftovers\u003c\/i\u003e, he has never written it like this--as pure and clean as a wish, or a prayer. I wept, because I understood. If you have lost someone you love, you will, too.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--Emma Straub, author of \u003ci\u003eThis Time Tomorrow\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \" \n\u003ci\u003eGhost Town\u003c\/i\u003e is a brilliant, evocative novel, at once a page-turning ghost story, and a deeply moving exploration of grief. Tom Perrotta's characters are people you know instantly, and the town he's created feels like the place you grew up. I couldn't put it down and after finishing it, I couldn't escape the haunting nostalgia of my own memories.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--Jess Walter, author of \u003ci\u003eBeautiful Ruins\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \" \n\u003ci\u003eGhost Town \u003c\/i\u003eis a glorious piece of Americana (not to mention New Jerseyana), a wonderful snapshot of a time and place and one of the best renditions of childhood in recent memory. Tom Perrotta just keeps getting better.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--Gary Shteyngart, author of \u003ci\u003eVera, or Faith\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"I love the sense of constant presence and interplay of time\/timelessness in Tom Perrotta's gorgeous new novel. \n\u003ci\u003eGhost Town\u003c\/i\u003e is a wise, funny, bittersweet testament to the fact that ghosts live in us and with us, always.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--Jayne Anne Phillips, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eNight Watch\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \" \n\u003ci\u003eGhost Town \u003c\/i\u003e[is] moving, evocative, wise and funny.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--Curtis Sittenfeld, author of \u003ci\u003eRomantic Comedy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eA 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\/b\u003e\n\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. \n\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, \n\u003ci\u003eGhost Town\u003c\/i\u003e is an \"emotional wallop [that] nails the restless ennui of adolescence\" ( \n\u003ci\u003ePeople\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations:\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/span\u003e 02\/02\/2026 (EAN 9781668080634, Hardcover) - *Starred Review\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/span\u003e 02\/15\/2026 (EAN 9781668080634, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eBooklist\u003c\/span\u003e 03\/01\/2026 (EAN 9781668080634, Hardcover) - *Starred Review\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/span\u003e 01\/01\/2026 pg. 57 (EAN 9781668080634, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/span\u003e 12\/30\/0001 (EAN 9781668080634, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eContributor Bio:\u003c\/strong\u003ePerrotta, Tom\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTom Perrotta is the author of eleven works of fiction, including \n\u003ci\u003eElection \u003c\/i\u003eand \n\u003ci\u003e Little Children\u003c\/i\u003e, both of which were made into Oscar-nominated films, and \n\u003ci\u003eThe Leftovers\u003c\/i\u003e and \n\u003ci\u003eMrs. Fletcher\u003c\/i\u003e, which were adapted into acclaimed HBO series. 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