Colm Tóibín's New York Times bestselling novel—soon to be a film starring
Saoirse Ronan and Jim Broadbent from the award-winning team that produced An
Education—is "a moving, deeply satisfying read" (Entertainment Weekly) about a
young Irish immigrant in Brooklyn in the early 1950s.
"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. When an Irish priest from Brooklyn
offers to sponsor Eilis in America, she decides she must go, leaving her fragile
mother and her charismatic sister behind.
Eilis finds work in a department store on Fulton Street,