![]() Jules still doesn't appear so Mary Pat makes her own inquiries throughout the neighborhood. The following day, Mary Pat shows up for work at Meadow Lane old folks' home and discovers that her Black colleague's son, Auggie Williamson, was found dead on the track of a subway station early that morning. Mary Pat finds herself with a far more pressing concern when her 17-year-old daughter Jules fails to come home one night. ![]() In South Boston, Mary Pat's white, working-class, Irish-American home turf, mob chief Marty Butler - "Southie's protector" - has organized anti-busing protests. It is the torrid summer of 1974 and the eve of Boston's controversial desegregation of public high schools. Lehane's high-octane drama plays out against a backdrop of historical events. Single mother Mary Pat Fennessy is described by a character as "broken but unbreakable." She is also unstoppable as she embarks on a mission that is both a search for answers and a quest for revenge. ![]() Lehane's latest novel, "Small Mercies," is fronted by another strong woman. ![]() Rachel Childs was a formidable heroine whose concealed traits and surprise impulses were revealed with each narrative twist and turn. Dennis Lehane's last novel from 2017, the psychological thriller "Since We Fell," was his first to unfold through a female protagonist's perspective. ![]()
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