The New York Times bestsellerA Granta Best of Young American Novelists 2017 'Extraordinary?dazzling? a sprawling, generous, warm-hearted epic of 1970s New York' Observer Midnight, New Year's Eve, 1976.
Regan and William Hamilton-Sweeney, heirs to a great fortune; Keith and Mercer, the men who, for better or worse, love them; Charlie and Samantha, two suburban teenagers seduced by the punk scene; an obsessive magazine reporter and his idealistic neighbour - and the detective trying to figure out what any of them have to do with a shooting in Central Park on New Year's Eve.
Then, on July 13th, 1977, the lights go out in New York City.