The “town’’ in this crime novel with Ben Affleck is the once tough but now substantially gentrified Boston section of Charlestown.
“Boston Street Scene (Boston Common), 1898-1899, by Edward Mitchell Bannister.
“When I grew up, there really was the sense of why would you want to live anywhere else?”
– Ben Affleck (born 1972), American actor and director, raised in Cambridge, Mass.
