Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
Brooklyn by Colm Toibin 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. Eilis Lacey has grown up in a small town in Ireland after World War Two. In the poor Irish economy, Ellis is unable to find work at her bookkeeping trade. Then an offer arrives from an Irish priest in Brooklyn to sponsor her if she comes to America. She makes the difficult decision to lea