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The Given Day

by Dennis Lehane

Two families amid postwar upheaval

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Awards & Recognition

  • Author recognition

    New York Times bestselling author

    The metadata describes Dennis Lehane as a New York Times bestselling author, citing Live by Night, Mystic River,...

  • Critical praise

    Praise from The New York Times

    The New York Times praised the novel as a majestic, fiery epic and said it brings history alive.

AlbakiReads Editorial

Two families amid postwar upheaval

Set at the end of World War I, *The Given Day* brings two families—one Black and one white—into a broad portrait of a nation unsettled by political conflict. Dennis Lehane’s novel places their lives amid revolutionaries and anarchists, immigrants and ward bosses, Brahmins and ordinary citizens, with survival and power at stake. Its historical canvas connects domestic experience to the pressures of a country caught between an established past and an uncertain future. The result is a family-centered story shaped by social divisions and political unrest in postwar America.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in historical fiction set in the aftermath of World War I.
  • Readers who enjoy family stories framed by political and social conflict.
  • Readers seeking fiction that brings together perspectives across racial and class lines.

Themes

Family and survivalPolitical unrestRace and classPower and social change

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Book overview

"Gut-wrenching force...A majestic, fiery epic. The Given Day is a huge, impassioned, intensively researched book that brings history alive." - The New York Times

Dennis Lehane, the New York Times bestselling author of Live by Night--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.

 

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