Summary

The Prologue, titled “List,” is a list of the names of nearly 60 people impacted by drugs. The list ends with the narrator and her sister’s mother and father.

In “Now,” Michaela “Mickey” Fitzpatrick is a patrol officer in the Kensington area of Philadelphia. She has been working with a new officer, Eddie Lafferty, for about an hour when a call comes in of a dead woman on the Gurney Street tracks. Mickey immediately thinks that it is her sister, Kacey. She reminds herself that the statistics are against it.

During Mickey’s day with Lafferty, Mickey has taken an immense dislike to Lafferty. He talks about himself constantly, a habit that makes Mickey think that he is trying to cover his faults. Out of the information that Lafferty gives to Mickey about himself, it is significant that Lafferty and Kevin...