Brooklyn
2009 • 304 pages

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Average rating3.4

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Eilis can't find work in Ireland, but, sponsored by a priest, she comes to America. Exhilaration...homesickness...jealousies...frustrations...Eilis shares all of these parts of the immigration experience with us, the readers. It's a poignant story and, most importantly, it feels very, very true.

June 12, 2017