Ghost town : a novel
Call Number
- FICTION PERR (CEN, OSH, WSQ)
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Publication Information
New York : Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, LLC, 2026.
Physical Description
273 pages ; 24 cm
Summary
"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. 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, Ghost Town reveals how the past haunts the present the way our ghosts are always with us, even when we think we've left them behind"-- Provided by publisher.
Subjects
- Life change events > Fiction.
- Friendship > Fiction.
- Grief > Fiction.
- Families > Fiction.
- Teenagers > Fiction.
- Teenage boys > Fiction.
- Friendship in adolescence > Fiction.
- Grief in adolescence > Fiction.
- Bereavement > Fiction.
- Ouija boards > Fiction.
- Suburbs > New Jersey > Fiction.
- Cities and towns > New Jersey > Fiction.
- Authors, American > Fiction.
- Nineteen seventies > Fiction.
- New Jersey > Fiction.