The Given Day

<P> Set in Boston at the end of the First World War bestselling author Dennis Lehane's extraordinary eighth novel unflinchingly captures the political and social unrest of a nation caught at the crossroads where past meets future. Filled with a cast of richly drawn unforgettable characters The Given Day 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. Coursing through the pivotal events of a turbulent epoch it explores the crippling violence and irrepressible exuberance of a country at war with and in the thrall of itself.