Brooklyn is a beautifully written novel about an Irish girl who moves to Brooklyn in the 1950s to find work. Toibin sensitively relates the protagonist's ambivalence about both Ireland and Brooklyn and her inability to reconcile the two different worlds.
Friday, August 20, 2010
Brooklyn: a novel
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fiction,
immigration,
reviewed by JGM
Brooklyn is a beautifully written novel about an Irish girl who moves to Brooklyn in the 1950s to find work. Toibin sensitively relates the protagonist's ambivalence about both Ireland and Brooklyn and her inability to reconcile the two different worlds.
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