Given Day

<p>Gut-wrenching force...A majestic fiery epic. The Given Day is a huge impassioned intensively researched book that brings history alive. - <em>The New York Times</em> </p><p>Dennis Lehane the <em>New York Times</em> bestselling author of <em>Live by Night</em>--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.</p><p></p>