Get swept up in this stirring adventure of an immigrant torn between longing for the family and life she left behind in Ireland and the promise of opportunity and love in her new country. Brooklyn By Colm Toibin Hardcover, 272 pages Simon & Schuster List Price: 25 Eilis Lacey, sitting at the window of the upstairs living room in the house on Friary Street, noticed her sister. Brooklyn was on the Booker Prize Longlist and Newsweek's 50 Books for Our Times in 2009. But just as Eilis begins to fall in love with Tony, terrible news from the home country threatens the fulfillment of her dreams. She makes the difficult decision to leave her mother and sister behind to pursue a new life overseas.Įilis finds work in a Brooklyn department store, and meets Tony, an Italian from a big family. Then an offer arrives from an Irish priest in Brooklyn to sponsor her if she comes to America. In the poor Irish economy, Ellis is unable to find work at her bookkeeping trade. A beautiful coming of age story, Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín, is set in Ireland and Brooklyn in the early 1950s, when a young woman decides to cross the Atlantic in search of a better life.Įilis Lacey has grown up in a small town in Ireland after World War Two.
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