Toibin Colm. Brooklyn

A Division of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2009. — 154 p. — ISBN13: 978-1-4391-4982-9 ISBN10: 1-4391-4982-8, ASIN: B0026SCMNM.It is Enniscorthy in the southeast of Ireland in the early 1950s. Eilis Lacey is one among many of her generation who cannot find work at home. Thus when a job is offered in America, it is clear to everyone that she must go. Leaving 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, however, the pain of parting is buried beneath the rhythms of her new life – until she begins to realize that...