"Gut-wrenching. . . . A majestic, fiery epic.The Given Day is a huge, impassioned, intensively researched book that brings history alive."?New York Times Now available with a contemporary look, a beautifully written novel of American history, set at the end of the Great War; an unflinching, utterly spectacular family epic that captures the political unrest of a nation dangling between a well-patterned past and an unpredictable future from acclaimed,New York Times bestselling author Dennis Lehane Dennis Lehane's beautifully written novel 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. Coursing through the pivotal events