Dennis Lehane's The Given Day
I've never read any Dennis Lehane, although I've enjoyed his writing work on The Wire and Ben Affleck's adaptation of his Gone Baby Gone. (Clint Eastwood's Mystic River, however, was atrocious.) But he has a new novel coming out in September that intrigues me: The Given Day, a 700-page historical novel about the Boston police union strike in 1919. Right up my alley.
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Unrelated: did I tell you I know someone who had a (great?) grandparent who died in the Great Molasses Flood? It was the same year as the strike, do you think that means something?
Maybe it'll be in the book. I read somewhere that Negro League Baseball plays a role in the book as well.
Too bad this didn't happen until a few years later:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PlhJOzH0gY
Dennis Lehane is really good, even if he kinda gives me nightmares. I look forward to this.
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