Lush Life - Richard Price

When a cocky young hipster is shot by a street kid from the other Lower East Side, the crime ripples through every stratum of the city, in this brilliant and kaleidoscopic portrait of the new New York. A National Bestseller A New York Times Notable Book of the Year Lush Life is a tale of two Lower East Sides: one a high-priced bohemia, the other a home to hardship, it's residents pushed to the edges of their time-honored turf. When a cocky young hipster is shot to death by a street kid from the other lower east side, the crime ripples through every stratum of the city in this brilliant and kaleidiscopic portrait of the new New York.