{"product_id":"ghost-town","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 lifeand the story he finally has the courage to tell.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\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\u003c\/i\u003e), revealing how the past haunts the present and the way our ghosts are always with us, even when we think weve left them behind.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57507694379381,"sku":"9781668080634","price":28.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781668080634.jpg?v=1787042815","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/ghost-town","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}