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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.
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 .
Apr 24, 2023 · SMALL MERCIES, by Dennis Lehane. In June 1974, Judge W. Arthur Garrity Jr. declared that in order to end de facto racial segregation in Boston’s public schools, a percentage of students from...
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.
Apr 25, 2023 · Set in Boston, 1974, against the backdrop of the controversial schools desegregation policy, Lehane unfolds a brutal story of racism, gangs, organised crime and the bravery of individuals willing to take on power and challenge it in the most violent of ways.
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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.
