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Book Review of “Brooklyn” by Colm Toibin

Book Review of "Brooklyn" by Colm Toibin

Presented by Book Reviewer Gail Rice

Monday, August 16th 1:30 pm

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Named a Best Book of 2009, the story centers around a young woman named Eilis

Lacey who has come of age in a small town in Ireland in the years following World War Two. When an Irish priest from Brooklyn offers to sponsor Eilis in America, she decides she must go, leaving her family behind. Eilis finds work in a department store in Brooklyn and finds love with Tony, an Italian American who loves the Dodgers. But just as Eilis finds herself falling in love, devastating news from Ireland threatens the promise of her future!

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