A polio epidemic strikes a summer camp in this state in a 2010 novel whose author claimed it to be his last.  
A polio epidemic strikes a summer camp in this state in a 2010 novel whose author claimed it to be his last.  Nemesis  is set in this state, also the setting of a novella in which a fruit-filled refrigerator unnerves a man who decides to end his relationship with the assimilated Brenda Patimkin. A high school reunion in this state is where a writer learns about the life and recent death of Seymour (*)  "Swede" Levov. A character from this state starts a relationship with "the Monkey" after fleeing his stifling family home in this state in a novel framed as a psychotherapy session.  Goodbye, Columbus  and  American Pastoral  are set in, and Nathan Zuckerman and Alexander Portnoy are from, for 10 points, what US state, where native son Philip Roth was born in Newark?
A polio epidemic strikes a summer camp in this state in a 2010 novel whose author claimed it to be his last.  
New Jersey  [prompt on  NJ ] 