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Colm Toibin Unabridged CD on 6 Discs 7.5 Hours

In 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 into a crowded boarding house.

Slowly, 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 the old life but to new possibilities that conflict deeply with the life she has left behind in Brooklyn.