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Friday, May 19, 2023, 5:00am
By Adam Friedrich

Novelist Dennis Lehane's new book "Small Mercies" is set at the tail end of summer in 1974 during the Boston bussing riots, where forced school desegregation led to severe protests and a racially ugly upheaval.

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