Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín

358 pages first pub 2009 (view editions)

fiction historical literary emotional reflective slow-paced
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In Ireland in the early 1950s, Eilis Lacey is one of many who cannot find work at home. Thus when a job is offered in America, it is clear to everyone that she must go. Leaving behind her family and country, Eilis heads for unfamiliar Brooklyn, an...

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