{"product_id":"brooklynbooks","title":"Brooklyn","description":"It is Enniscorthy in the southeast of Ireland in the early 1950s. Eilis Lacey is  one among many of her generation who cannot find work at home. Thus when a job is  offered in America, it is clear to everyone that she must go. Leaving her family  and country, Eilis heads for unfamiliar Brooklyn, and to a crowded boarding house  where the landlady’s intense scrutiny and the small jealousies of her fellow residents  only deepen her isolation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Slowly, however, the pain of parting is buried beneath  the rhythms of her new life — until she begins to realize that she has found a sort  of happiness. As she falls in love, news comes from home that forces her back to  Enniscorthy, not to the constrictions of her old life, but to new possibilities which  conflict deeply with the life she has left behind in Brooklyn.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In the quiet character  of Eilis Lacey, Colm Tóibín has created one of fiction’s most memorable heroines  and in \u003ci\u003eBrooklyn\u003c\/i\u003e, a luminous novel of devastating power. Tóibín demonstrates once  again his astonishing range and that he is a true master of nuanced prose, emotional  depth, and narrative virtuosity.","brand":"Toibin, Colm","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Adult Fiction)","offer_id":44102639124704,"sku":"","price":13.5,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Hardcover (Adult Fiction)","offer_id":47685256839392,"sku":null,"price":19.8,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0330\/3125\/8248\/files\/Screenshot_2026-02-01_at_3.19.26_PM.png?v=1769973595","url":"https:\/\/agricola-street-books.myshopify.com\/products\/brooklynbooks","provider":"Agricola Street Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}