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Occur Boston at the finish of the Very First World-War, best-selling writer Dennis Lehaneis remarkable eighth book unflinchingly reflects the social and political unrest of the country found at the crossroads where past meets future. Full of a cast of richly drawn, memorable characters, The Given Time tells the tale of two families—one black, one white—swept up in a maelstrom of revolutionaries and anarchists, immigrants and ward companies, Brahmins and regular people, all involved in a fight for survival and energy. Coursing through the critical events of the turbulent epoch, it examines the irrepressible exuberance and assault of the nation at war with, and in the thrall of, itself.