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<v Speaker 1>Welcome to the WBZ Book Club. I'm Jordan Rich. Dennis

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<v Speaker 1>Lahane's one of the best writers to come out of

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<v Speaker 1>Boston bar none, and I just finished his latest called

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<v Speaker 1>Small Mercies. The action takes place in nineteen seventy four

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<v Speaker 1>in an extremely tense time court ordered school bussing in

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<v Speaker 1>the South Boston Projects. We meet Mary Pat Fenessy, whose

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<v Speaker 1>teenage daughter Jules, one night, doesn't come home. Mary Patt

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<v Speaker 1>is desperate to find her. At the same time, a

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<v Speaker 1>young black teenager dies in a suspicious subway incident, and

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<v Speaker 1>the two might be connected. The central character, Mary Pat,

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<v Speaker 1>is cut from a tough breed, smoking, drinking, swearing, and

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<v Speaker 1>for much of the novel letting her prejudices and racism

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<v Speaker 1>rule her thinking. The black characters also exhibit racism. The

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<v Speaker 1>language in this book might offend some people, but it's

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<v Speaker 1>brutally realistic, with lots of tension and crime. A whitey

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<v Speaker 1>Bulger like figure is at the heart of much of

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<v Speaker 1>the misery in Southey. Dennis Lahane at his best Small Mercies.

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