A review by marypmcg
The Given Day by Dennis Lehane

4.0

This book covers only 2 years of post WWI Boston life, but it feels like an epic Saga. So much happens between 1918 and 1920 - Babe Ruth starts hitting home runs like no one has ever seen, workers begin to organize, anarchists attack the City, and the Spanish influenza epidemic infects masses. And all of that is just the backdrop to the drama of two families - one white, and one black - and their internal struggles as well as their modern fears.