boston

In 1956, Ava Lark rents a house with her twelve-year-old son, Lewis, in a desirable Boston suburb. Ava is beautiful, divorced, Jewish, and a working mom. She finds her neighbors less than welcoming. Lewis yearns for his absent father, befriending the only other fatherless kids: Jimmy and Rose. One afternoon, Jimmy goes missing. The neighborhood{8212}in the throes of Cold War paranoia{8212}seizes the opportunity to further ostracize Ava and her son. Years later, when Lewis and Rose reunite to untangle the final pieces of the tragic puzzle, they must decide: Should you tell the truth even if it hurts those you love, or should some secrets remain buried?.

After Daryl Gordon decides to reopen her mother, Emily Gordon's murder case after thirty years, private investigator Spenser faces very difficult and dangerous events which will test his bravery to the limit.

An account of a school teacher's year teaching fourth grade in the Boston Public School System in 1964.