Review: Bestselling novelist Tom Perrotta is back with ‘Ghost Town’ Chris Hewitt, The Minnesota Star Tribune May 6, 2026 3 hrs ago 0 1 of 2 “Ghost Town,” by Tom Perrotta. (Scribner/TNS) SIMON & SCHUSTER/TNS Writer Tom Perrotta. (Beowulf Sheehan/Scribner/TNS) Beowulf Sheehan/Beowulf Sheehan/TNS Facebook Twitter Bluesky WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Chris Hewitt, The Minnesota Star Tribune Like Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney’s just-published “Lake Effect,” bestselling writer Tom Perrotta’s “Ghost Town” is about life in the suburbs in the 1970s.kAm$H66?6J’D 3@@< H2D D6E ?62C #@496DE6C[ }6H *@C<[ 3FE !6CC@EE2’D :D D@FE962DE @7 E96C6 :? }6H y6CD6J] q@E9 3@@<D 562= H:E9 J@F?8 A6@A=6 H9@ 2C6 25C:7E[ 2?5 3@E9 42AEFC6 2 E:>6 @7 C2A:5=J 492?8:?8 >@C6D 2?5 A@=:E:4D W@? E96 @E96C 92?5i :D E96C6 DF49 2 E9:?8 2D 2 E:>6 H96? 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