When she isn't at this dull and routine work, we generally see Eilis at home. We learn about Eilis's work in a shop in Ireland, then another in Brooklyn, together with a course in bookkeeping she takes to advance her career. Tóibín himself is said to have described the book as "quite low key, about somebody very ordinary" and the details he attends to are everyday, even banal. It tells simply of the move a young Irishwoman – Eilis Lacey – makes from Wexford to New York City in the 1950s, of her generally happy relationship there with an Italian American called Tony, and of a trip she takes back to Ireland to attend a funeral. Don't, as I almost did, let that put you off. Superficially, Brooklyn is a book in which very little happens.
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