Reader's Digest UK

April Fiction

FOR MOST OF us, violent racial conflict in 20th-century America probably conjures up images of the Deep South. Yet as Dennis Lehane’s new novel makes horrifyingly clear, the problem was far more widespread than that.

is set in working-class Irish Boston in 1974: the year the city finally decided to desegregate the education system by busing some white kids

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