Given Day

"Gut-wrenching. . . . A majestic, fiery epic.The Given Dayis a huge, impassioned, intensively researched book that brings history alive."New York TimesNowavailable with a contemporary look, a beautifully written novel of Americanhistory, set at the end of the Great War; an unflinching, utterly spectacularfamily epic that captures the political unrest of a nation dangling between awell-patterned past and an unpredictable future from acclaimed, New YorkTimes bestselling author Dennis LehaneDennisLehanes beautifully written novel tells the story of two familiesone black,one whiteswept up in a maelstrom of revolutionaries and anarchists, immigrantsand ward bosses, Brahmins and ordinary citizens, all engaged in a battle forsurvival and power at the end of World War I. Coursing through the pivotal events of a turbulent epoch, itexplores the crippling violence and irrepressible exuberance of a country atwar with, and in the thrall of, itself.