Yet another pitch-perfect take on urban crime, policing, and city life by Richard Price. Set on the Lower East Side of Manhattan post-9/11, this story centers on the shooting death of a young white hipster who had just started working at a young white hipster restaurant in the neighborhood, and the subsequent police investigation. At first the investigation centers on one of the two other white hipster guys accompanying the victim that night, but finding the answer to what happened turns out to be both simpler and more complicated to pin down. Price's cops and street kids are always finely drawn; some critics found the hipster crown to be less carefully shaded and somewhat out of date. I didn't have this problem, and found those characters just as recognizable, confounding, and complicated as the others. Price does a particularly good job with the family of the dead young man, who fall apart from grief rather spectacularly, but also in a very moving way.