Brooklyn
by Colm Tóibín
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In a small town in the south-east of Ireland in the 1950s, Eilis Lacey is among many of her generation who cannot find work at home. So when she is offered a job in America, she leaves her family to start a new life in Brooklyn, New York.
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Irish, Women immigrants, Fiction, History, Social life and customs, Irish fiction, Love stories, Psychological fiction, Fiction, psychological, Fiction, historical, New york (n.y.), fiction, Ireland, fiction, Fiction, romance, historical, Large type books, nyt:trade-fiction-paperback=2010-03-28, New York Times bestseller, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, historical, generalTimes
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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, and to a crowded boarding house where the landlady's intense scrutiny and the small jealousies of her fellow residents only deepen her isolation. Slowly, the pain of parting is buried beneath the rhythms of her new life -- and finally, she begins to realize that she has found a sort of happiness. As she falls in love, news comes from home that forces her back to Enniscorthy -- not to the constrictions of her old life, but to new possibilities which conflict deeply with the life she has left behind in Brooklyn.
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