Get Lit: Tom Perrotta
Get Lit with All Of It is a monthly on-air, social media, in-person and live stream book club, hosted by Alison Stewart of and partnered with The New York Public Library!
In May, we will be reading Ghost Town by Tom Perrotta!
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.
Tom Perrotta will be joining us on Wednesday May 27th at 6 pm in the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library. Tickets are free, but seats are first come, first serve and not guaranteed. Doors open at 5:30 pm
