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Apr 25, 2023 · Set against the hot, tumultuous months when the city’s desegregation of its public schools exploded in violence, Small Mercies is a superb thriller, a brutal depiction of criminality and power, and an unflinching portrait of the dark heart of American racism.
Small Mercies is a 2023 crime-mystery novel by American author Dennis Lehane. The novel takes place in Boston in the summer of 1974, and centers Irish Mob conflicts, a missing teenaged white girl, and a Black man's murder, in the days approaching the first day of school during the Boston busing crisis. Lehane has signaled that the novel "may be ...
Apr 25, 2023 · The acclaimed New York Times bestselling writer returns with a masterpiece to rival Mystic River—an all-consuming tale of revenge, family love, festering hate, and insidious power, set against one of the most tumultuous episodes in Boston’s history.
- Dennis Lehane
Apr 28, 2023 · At once a crime novel, a deep, unflinching look at racism, and a heart-wrenching story about a mother who has lost everything, this narrative delves into life in the projects at a time when the...
Apr 25, 2023 · The acclaimed New York Times bestselling writer returns with a masterpiece to rival Mystic River—an all-consuming tale of revenge, family love, festering hate, and insidious power, set against one of the most tumultuous episodes in Boston’s history.
Apr 24, 2023 · That tumultuous summer provides the backdrop to Dennis Lehane’s excellent and unflinching new novel, “Small Mercies.”
Apr 22, 2023 · SIMON: Dennis Lehane's new novel, "Small Mercies," is set during that summer of 1974. A Black student dies in a baffling subway accident. A white teenage girl...
Apr 25, 2023 · A master of literary crime fiction, Lehane revisits the Boston of almost a half-century ago, when, in 1974, court-ordered school busing incites protest throughout the White neighborhoods of a very segregated city.
Small Mercies by Dennis Lehane is the heart-breaking story of Mary Pat Fennessy, a tough 42-year-old from Southie in Boston. The book is set in 1974, after a Massachusetts court ruled that Boston’s public schools should integrate segregated communities through busing, and violence broke out.
Apr 21, 2023 · In ‘Small Mercies,’ Dennis Lehane takes readers back to racially tense Boston in the 70s, where a fearless mother searches for her missing daughter.
