A review by jakewritesbooks
Lush Life by Richard Price

4.0

After four attempts spread over ten years, I finally powered through this one! I knew I'd be able to do it once I got the sense of Price's cadence. And I wound up getting hooked, as I thought I would. This is definitely written by someone who has written for The Wire in that it takes a thorough look at crime and law enforcement. You won't get any grand pronunciations about the War on Drugs or Mass Incarceration but the power is in the way Price tells the story: these feel like real people going through the same motions that those who have come before them in the LES have done.