{"product_id":"ghost-town-book-tom-perrotta-9781668080634","title":"Ghost Town","description":"\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\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\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.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53397893382417,"sku":"NIN9781668080634","price":26.59,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53652247937297,"sku":"CIN166808063XVG","price":23.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53668487201041,"sku":"CIN166808063XG","price":22.08,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781668080634.jpg?v=1775926674","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/ghost-town-book-tom-perrotta-9781668080634","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}