{"product_id":"ghost-town-1","title":"Ghost Town","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy:\u003c\/strong\u003e Tom Perrotta\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePublished by Scribner, 2026-04-28\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026lt;b\u0026gt;\u0026lt;b\u0026gt;From \u0026lt;i\u0026gt;New York Times\u0026lt;\/i\u0026gt; bestselling author Tom Perrotta, hailed by critics as “the Steinbeck of Suburbia” (\u0026lt;i\u0026gt;Time\u0026lt;\/i\u0026gt;), “our Balzac of the burbs” (\u0026lt;i\u0026gt;Chicago Sun-Times\u0026lt;\/i\u0026gt;), and “an American Chekhov” (\u0026lt;i\u0026gt;The New York Times\u0026lt;\/i\u0026gt;), 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.\u0026lt;\/b\u0026gt;\u0026lt;\/b\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;Jimmy 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.\u0026lt;br\u0026gt; \u0026lt;br\u0026gt;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, \u0026lt;i\u0026gt;Ghost Town\u0026lt;\/i\u0026gt; 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\/p\u003e","brand":"Phoenix Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47081268412585,"sku":"PHBK-9781668080634","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0578\/9899\/1785\/files\/25024353482781.jpg?v=1779739839","url":"https:\/\/myti.com\/products\/ghost-town-1","provider":"Myti","version":"1.0","type":"link"}