ReReads Book Club - "Brooklyn" by Colm Tóibín

To celebrate the release of Long Island, Colm Tóibín’s highly anticipated follow up to Brooklyn, Book Club Bar is excited to announce the ReReads Book Club. Join our bookseller Liv Stratman on May 7, 2024 for a discussion of Brooklyn. All attendees will receive a signed copy of Long Island.

Fifteen years ago, Colm Tóibín published Brooklyn, the story of a young Irish immigrant named Eilis Lacey making her way in the rapidly changing borough during the early 1950s. The book was a critically accliamed best-seller, nominated for the Booker Prize and awarded the Costa Novel Award, and has endured as one of our most beloved literary portraits of modern immigrant life in New York City.

Now Tóibín returns with Long Island, his highly anticipated sequel to Eilis’s story.

A man with an Irish accent knocks on Eilis Fiorello’s door on Long Island and in that moment everything changes. Eilis and Tony have built a secure, happy life here since leaving Brooklyn - perhaps a little stifled by the in-laws so close, but twenty years married and with two children looking towards a good future.

And yet this stranger will reveal something that will make Eilis question the life she has created. For the first time in years she suddenly feels very far from home and the revelation will see her turn towards Ireland once again. Back to her mother. Back to the town and the people she had chosen to leave behind. Did she make the wrong choice marrying Tony all those years ago? Is it too late now to take a different path?

Long Island is Colm Tóibín’s masterpiece: an exquisite, exhilarating novel that asks whether it is possible to truly return to the past and renew the great love that seemed gone forever.

Purchase Brooklyn here, or the audiobook version here.

What your ticket includes:

- One signed, hardcover edition of Long Island, the follow-up to Brooklyn

Grab a cocktail at the bar and tell us what you thought of the book! Our informal discussion will be led by Liv Stratman, author of Cheat Day.

Registration is capped, so please register early if you are planning on attending.