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Join us for a lively, librarian-led discussion of Colm Tóibín's award winning bestselling novel, Brooklyn. Registration is required.
Tóibín's bestselling novel begins in 1950s Ireland with the main character Eilis Lacey, who is unable to find any work. Thus when a job is offered in America, it is clear to everyone she must go. Leaving behind her family and country, Eilis heads for unfamiliar Brooklyn, and to a crowded boarding house where 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 she finally begins to settle down. As she starts to fall in love with an Italian young man named Tony, 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.
