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Mar 14, 2016TheresaAJ rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
After seeing the movie based on this book, I wanted to read the novel. Eilis Lacey leaves a small town in Ireland to find work in 1950s New York. As she settles into work at Bartocci's Department Store and takes night classes at Brooklyn College, Eilis overcomes her homesickness and unexpectedly finds love with a boy from an Italian immigrant family. A return trip home after her sister's death forces Eilis to decide which side of the Atlantic her future belongs to. Although the movie was pretty true to the book, it completely avoided the social issues raised in the novel -- tension between the various European ethnic groups and with blacks moving into the neighborhood. The movie's ending extends the ending in the book. A beautiful portrait of immigrant life in 1950s America.