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Ghost town : a novel / Tom Perrotta.

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". Publisher description.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781668080634
  • ISBN: 166808063X
  • Physical Description: 273 pages ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Scribner, 2026.
Subject:
Friendship > Fiction.
Grief > Fiction.
Families > Fiction.
Ouija boards > Fiction.
Friendship.
Grief.
New Jersey.
New Jersey > Fiction.
Genre:
Novels.
Fiction.

Available copies

  • 30 of 49 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 0 of 1 copy available at Onslow County Public Library.

Holds

  • 6 current holds with 49 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Swansboro Branch Library FIC PERROTTA (Text) 36015000777942 Adult New Fiction Checked out 08/17/2026