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Tom Perrotta’s novel 'Ghost Town' revisits a New Jersey childhood from a bygone era
Listen to the episodeA novel in which a successful writer named Jimmy Perrini returns to his white, working-class suburban New Jersey hometown, revisiting a difficult summer in eighth grade marked by his mother's death from cancer, strip malls, troublemakers, the Vietnam War, an Ouija board, and racial tensions in the 1970s.
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