Aaron Lipstein, “the Lip” to his best friend Charlie Figatelli, is about to graduate high school at the top of his class. 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. The boys sail into the bay, following the treacherous currents that carried the body away from the Brooklyn shore. Their boat is swamped, stranding them in the marshes and islands stretching across the bay. As Aaron and Charlie begin a perilous journey back to the mainland, their struggle through the harsh environment brings them to a harrowing encounter with “the ghost people”, living in a village hidden deep in the marshes. Here, Aaron will learn the truth of Mr. Figatelli’s disappearance, and it will transform his perception of the man he respected and admired more than his own father. Charlie Fig and the Lip is a story of fathers and sons, the bonds of friendship, and the loss of childhood innocence.