Given Day The

Gut-wrenching force...A majestic fiery epic. The Given Day is a huge impassioned intensively researched book that brings history alive. - The New York TimesDennis Lehane the New York Times bestselling author of Live by Night—now a Warner Bros. movie starring Ben Affleck—offers an unflinching family epic that captures the political unrest of a nation caught between a well-patterned past and an unpredictable future. This beautifully written novel of American history tells the story of two families—one black one white—swept up in a maelstrom of revolutionaries and anarchists immigrants and ward bosses Brahmins and ordinary citizens all engaged in a battle for survival and power at the end of World War I.