Pages: 252Published: 29th April 2009Genre: General FictionContent warnings: Sexual content, racism Eilis Lacey has come of age in small-town Ireland in the hard years following World War Two. When an Irish priest from Brooklyn offers to sponsor Eilis in America -- to live and work in a Brooklyn neighborhood "just like Ireland" -- she decides she must go, … Continue reading Book Review – Brooklyn by Colm Toibin

