Coming to Terms with Boston’s Racist Legacy in “Small Mercies” – Chicago Review of Books

Coming to Terms with Boston’s Racist Legacy in “Small Mercies” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] From the Kenzie and Gennaro novels that established him as a master of new noir, to the haunting crime thriller Mystic River and his magnum opus of the 1919 Boston Police Strike, The Given Day, Dennis Lehane has captured Boston neighborhoods with more grit, vitality, and unerring precision than any writer in recent memory. … Read more