One sweltering night, in a neighborhood on the cusp of change, boy
meets girl. If they’d only gone home together, they might still be
alive.
The core of this gritty, only in New York-story was inspired by real
events – a beautiful, aspiring dancer slain, her corpse dismembered,
possibly fed to the homeless in Tompkins Square Park. The psychotic
roommate has confessed, but a dilettante actor turned journalist thinks
there’s more to it and investigates. Soon one of his sources mentions he
might have better luck gaining trust if he’d shoot dope.
Welcome to New York’s East Village, aka Loisaida, circa 1988. Meet
your neighbors — artists, dreamers, hustlers, devil worshipers,
anarchists, junkies and yuppies — all competing for breathing space in a
city without air. It’s the era of greed, when the poor are objects of
scorn not sympathy, and the gentrifiers view themselves as urban
pioneers. This is a story about sex and drugs and real estate. This is a
story about a murder…
Like Last Exit to Brooklyn and Bonfire of the Vanities, Loisaida
is told through multiple POVs woven together by the mystery surrounding
a brutal crime and one man’s pursuit of what he believes will be the
story of a lifetime.
