of New Jersey,??? a coming-of-age tale set in the ???70s and early ???80s (the infamous ???Syringe Tide??? of 1979, which did Garden State boosters no favors, is a touchstone).???As someone whose known world was for some time circumscribed by more or less the boundaries of Essex County, Bergen County and the Jersey Shore, places such as the Turtle Back Zoo, the Claremont Diner, etc., were the sour