First published 2025
Richard Price delivers another gritty urban tale in his latest novel. The story follows characters navigating the complexities of modern city life, where truth becomes elusive and nothing appears as it first seems. Price draws on his signature style of realistic dialogue and street-level authenticity to explore how ordinary people respond when their assumptions about the world get challenged. The protagonist finds themselves questioning everything they believed to be certain. As layers of deception peel away, the characters must confront uncomfortable realities about themselves and their community. The novel examines how people cope when the foundations of their understanding crumble beneath them.
Genres: fiction, american-fiction, crime, contemporary, 21st-century, mystery-thriller
Vibes: intimate, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: social-commentary, unreliable-narrator
Setting: City
Period: 21st-Century
222 pages · Hardcover · Staten House