From New York Times bestselling author Tom Perrotta, hailed by critics as ‘the Steinbeck of Suburbia’ (Time), ‘our Balzac of the burbs’ (Chicago Sun-Times), and ‘an American Chekhov’ (The New York Times), 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.
Genre: Literary Fiction
Genre: Literary Fiction
Praise for this book
"Tom Perrotta rouses the sleeping dogs of 1970s suburbia with tender complexity. Ghost Town is a time capsule dug up behind the old high school - an artifact of a family navigating loss in a nation at the crossroads." - Tayari Jones
"I love the sense of constant presence and interplay of time/timelessness in Tom Perrotta's gorgeous new novel. Ghost Town is a wise, funny, bittersweet testament to the fact that ghosts live in us and with us, always." - Jayne Anne Phillips
"Ghost Town is a glorious piece of Americana (not to mention New Jerseyana), a wonderful snapshot of a time and place and one of the best renditions of childhood in recent memory. Tom Perrotta just keeps getting better." - Gary Shteyngart
"Ghost Town [is] moving, evocative, wise and funny." - Curtis Sittenfeld
"To readers who have not yet had the pleasure of reading Tom Perrotta's books, Ghost Town is a beautiful introduction. If Perrotta has written grief before, though, as in The Leftovers, he has never written it like this - as pure and clean as a wish, or a prayer. I wept, because I understood. If you have lost someone you love, you will, too." - Emma Straub
"Ghost Town is a brilliant, evocative novel, at once a page-turning ghost story, and a deeply moving exploration of grief. Tom Perrotta's characters are people you know instantly, and the town he's created feels like the place you grew up. I couldn't put it down and after finishing it, I couldn't escape the haunting nostalgia of my own memories." - Jess Walter
"I love the sense of constant presence and interplay of time/timelessness in Tom Perrotta's gorgeous new novel. Ghost Town is a wise, funny, bittersweet testament to the fact that ghosts live in us and with us, always." - Jayne Anne Phillips
"Ghost Town is a glorious piece of Americana (not to mention New Jerseyana), a wonderful snapshot of a time and place and one of the best renditions of childhood in recent memory. Tom Perrotta just keeps getting better." - Gary Shteyngart
"Ghost Town [is] moving, evocative, wise and funny." - Curtis Sittenfeld
"To readers who have not yet had the pleasure of reading Tom Perrotta's books, Ghost Town is a beautiful introduction. If Perrotta has written grief before, though, as in The Leftovers, he has never written it like this - as pure and clean as a wish, or a prayer. I wept, because I understood. If you have lost someone you love, you will, too." - Emma Straub
"Ghost Town is a brilliant, evocative novel, at once a page-turning ghost story, and a deeply moving exploration of grief. Tom Perrotta's characters are people you know instantly, and the town he's created feels like the place you grew up. I couldn't put it down and after finishing it, I couldn't escape the haunting nostalgia of my own memories." - Jess Walter
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