On April 6 at 2:30 we will discuss Long Island by Colm Tóibín.
Irish immigrant Eilis Lacey, introduced in Tóibín’s beloved novel Brooklyn, is married to Tony Fiorello, one of four Italian American brothers, all of whom live in neighboring houses on a cul-de-sac in Lindenhurst, Long Island, with their wives and children and Tony’s parents, a huge extended family that lives and works together. It is the spring of 1976 and Eilis, now in her forties with two teenage children, learns that another woman is having Tony’s child. It is what Eilis does—and what she refuses to do—after learning of this stunning news that makes Tóibín’s novel so riveting. This moving and intense novel of secrecy, misunderstanding and love is a gorgeous story of a woman alone in a marriage and the deepest bonds she rekindles on her return to the place and people she left behind, and to ways of living and loving she thought she’d lost.
Save the date: On May 4 we will discuss Night Watch by Jayne Anne Phillips.
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