Charlie Fig and the Lip

Aaron Lipstein, "the Lip" to his best friend Charlie Figatelli, ("because you got an answer for everything"), is about to graduate high school at the top of his class. Aaron is looking forward to an uneventful summer before leaving home for college and getting away from his abusive father. When the bullet-riddled, delivery van belonging to Charlie's father is pulled from a canal flowing into Jamaica Bay, and the police fail to recover Mr. Figatelli's body, Charlie appeals to Aaron to help him search for it.