Welcome to the WBZ Book Club. I'm Jordan Rich. Dennis Lahane's one of the best writers to come out of Boston bar none, and I just finished his latest called Small Mercies. The action takes place in nineteen seventy four in an extremely tense time court ordered school bussing in the South Boston Projects. We meet Mary Pat Fenessy, whose teenage daughter Jules, one night, doesn't come home. Mary Patt
is desperate to find her. At the same time, a young black teenager dies in a suspicious subway incident, and the two might be connected. The central character, Mary Pat, is cut from a tough breed, smoking, drinking, swearing, and for much of the novel letting her prejudices and racism rule her thinking. The black characters also exhibit racism. The language in this book might offend some people, but it's
brutally realistic, with lots of tension and crime. A whitey Bulger like figure is at the heart of much of the misery in Southey. Dennis Lahane at his best Small Mercies. The Book Club WBZ, Boston's news radio