Brooklyn

It's a well-traveled tale — a young woman emigrates from small-town Ireland to Brooklyn, N.Y., in the early 1950s in search of a better life — but novelist Colm Tóibín (The Master) creates suspense out of the simplest emotions: fear, love and, most poignantly, regret.

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