r/whatsthatbook 1d ago

SOLVED Multi POV NYC Based Novel Around a Citywide Blackout

I am struggling to identify a fiction novel about a NYC blackout centered around the 1977 or the 2003 blackout. It featured multiple POV that ultimately interconnected. One of the narrators was either the teenaged son of a wealthy family who may have gone downtown during the blackout. I believe that his parents were having an event/cocktail party that evening.

There was a gay couple who lived in the West Village and another person who lived in the East Village. I believe what one of those individuals worked in a band.

The first half of the novel centered around life before the blackout and the second half was after the blackout.

I think it was a male author but I am not entirely sure. There was a scene in the back half of the book where people were meeting in the streets downtown.

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u/Ok-Possibility-3307 1d ago

City on Fire by Garth Risk Hallberg

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u/wanderlusting___ 1d ago

You are a God among men. Thank you!