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Small Mercies 2023
Small Mercies is a 2023 detective-mystery novel written by American author Dennis Lehane. Set in Boston during summer 1974, the story unfolds amid the tense atmosphere leading up to the school year, coinciding with the height of the Boston busing crisis. The narrative involves Irish Mob conflicts, the disappearance of a teenage white girl, and the murder of a Black man. The novel's cover displays a photograph by Eugene Richards from a protest at South Boston High School in September 1974. Lehane has indicated that this work "may be his last.
Crew
- Cover artist
- Milan Bozic (design), Eugene Richards
Details
- Publisher
- Harper
- ISBN
- 9780062129482
- Pages
- 299
- Format
- Print (hardcover and paperback), e-book, audiobook
