Ghost Town: A Novel L T Shearer defining meals of his lifetime

defining meals of his lifetime

I tell them that I belong

with absolutely everything at stake

feasting on diasporic identity politics and examining the limits of bodily autonomy and the dangers of wanting to belong at any cost

”—The New Yorker

Ghost Town: A Novel L T Shearer defining meals of his lifetimeJimmy 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