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"Brooklyn ended with Éilis Lacey boarding a train at dawn, a secret marriage on her finger, photographs of another man at the bottom of her suitcase, and the almost-smile of a woman who had accepted permanent homelessness as the only available trut..."
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"St. Patrick's Day is not an Irish holiday. Not really. The biggest parades are in New York, Boston, Chicago, and Tucson. It's a diaspora holiday, built by people who had to leave. Brooklyn is the novel that explains exactly why that leaving still ..."
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"Eilis Lacey is Irish, 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...
