“One can’t ignore that Boston has been beset by a new class war of late […] It’s a war of gentrification. As the city continues to lose its old-school parochialism and overt immigrant tribalism, it’s also losing a lot of its character. Whether that’s a bad thing or a good thing is up for debate, but what can’t be argued is that it is, in fact, happening. That’s the paradox of the new Boston – what’s lost has, in many cases, been taken; what’s left is what people can’t sell”
[Dennis Lehane, from the introduction to Boston Noir]
The Boston Diaries
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