Long Island
Colm Toibin's sequel to Brooklyn finds Eilis Lacey, now living on Long Island, returning to Ireland when her marriage is upended.
Colm Toibin returns to Eilis Lacey, the heroine of Brooklyn, two decades on. Now married with children on Long Island, Eilis is shaken when a stranger reveals that her husband has fathered a child with another woman. She flees to her Irish hometown, where her mother and an old love still wait. Quiet and tense, the novel follows a woman weighing loyalty, desire, and home.
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