Entertainment Weekly recently rated Mystic River one of the Top 5 books of the past 25 years. The Given Day could be considered even better in the next 25.
New York Times Bestselling author, Dennis Lehane, Boston writer of modern tragedies like Mystic River and Gone Baby, Gone, enters a new realm of literature with his first historical fiction, The Given Day. While the setting is 1918, the story writhes with a modern twist of emotion, fears and striving humanity.