First published in hardcover to vigorous praise, Colm Toibin\'s New York Times bestselling novel is about a young Irish immigrant in Brooklyn in the early 1950s.
When an Irish priest from Brooklyn offers to sponsor Eilis in America, she decides she must go, leaving her fragile mother a. "One of the most unforgettable characters in contemporary literature" ( Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ), Eilis Lacey has come of age in small-town Ireland in the hard years following World War Two.
First published in hardcover to vigorous praise, Colm Toibin\'s New York Times bestselling novel is about a young Irish immigrant in Brooklyn in the early 1950s