Brooklyn

This was a very reserved and careful little book. A miniature really about a young Irish girl, Eilis Lacey, who leaves home in the early 50's and comes to Brooklyn, works in a dress shop, goes to night school, meets an Italian boy and...I will draw a veil over the rest. But Colm Toibin writes very well. No word out of place or unconsidered. Nothing extraneous. Everything packed neatly and folded like in the two suitcases Eilis carries across the Atlantic. No trailing bits and pieces. Very nice.