From Dennis Lehane, New York Times bestselling author of Mystic River and Shutter Island, comes the paperback model from the Given Day, an unflinching family members epic that catches the political unrest of a nation caught between a well-patterned past and an unpredictable future. This beautifully written book of American history tells the storyplot of two families-one black, one white-swept up within a maelstrom of revolutionaries and anarchists, immigrants and ward bosses, Brahmins and ordinary citizens, all involved in a fight for success and power at the end of World Battle I.