Book pick: 'Live by Night' by Dennis Lehane

Live by Night
Cover of "Live by Night" by Dennis Lehane
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Kerri's book pick this week is "Live by Night" by Dennis Lehane, a novel that follows the son of a Boston police captain as he becomes a successful and powerful bootlegger.

Kerri says, "What's great about 'Live by Night' is that it is set in the era of Prohibition in Tampa. I knew nothing about the city in that time. Lehane digs into the colorful history of Ybor City [a Tampa neighborhood]."

The Christian Science Monitor reports Ben Affleck will write and direct the film adaptation.

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