The Given Day
Categories: Literature & Fiction
The Given Day is a 2008 historical novel by Dennis Lehane, author of Mystic River. Set in Boston in 1918 and 1919, it follows Irish-American police officer Danny Coughlin and Luther Laurence, a Black man on the run from Tulsa, through the influenza epidemic, anarchist bombings, racial violence and the Boston police strike.
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- Stephen King: “On Writing: 10th Anniversary Edition (Scribner, 2010), per afterword list in On Writing (10th anniv. ed.)”