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- Dimensions
- 6 x 1 x 9 in
- Weight
- 2.31 lb
- Publisher
- Scribner
- Publication date
- May 7, 2024
- Language
- English
- Print length
- 304 pages
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OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2024 BY TIME MAGAZINE, THE NEW YORKER, WASHINGTON POST, VULTURE, GLAMOUR, FRESH AIR, NPR, THE GUARDIAN, THE ECONOMIST, THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, THE TIMES (London),THE IRISH TIMES, THE NEW STATESMAN, THE INDEPENDENT, THE OBSERVER, and more “Stunning.” —People “Dazzling yet devastating...Tóibín is simply one of the world’s best living literary writers.” —The Boston Globe “Momentous and hugely affecting.” —The Wall Street Journal From the beloved, critically acclaimed, bestselling author comes a spectacularly moving novel featuring Eilis Lacey, the complex and enigmatic heroine of Brooklyn, Tóibín’s most popular work in twenty years. Eilis Lacey is Irish, married to Tony Fiorello, a plumber and 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. It is the spring of 1976 and Eilis is now forty with two teenage children. Though her ties to Ireland remain stronger than those that hold her to her new land and home, she has not returned in decades. One day, when Tony is at work an Irishman comes to the door asking for Eilis by name. He tells her that his wife is pregnant with Tony’s child and that when the baby is born, he will not raise it but instead deposit it on Eilis’s doorstep. It is what Eilis does—and what she refuses to do—in response to this stunning news that makes Tóibín’s novel so riveting and suspenseful. Long Island is a gorgeous story “about a woman thrashing against the constraints of fate” (Maureen Corrigan, Fresh Air). It is “a wonder, rich with yearning and regret” (Star Tribune, Minneapolis). Read more
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| Publisher | Scribner |
|---|---|
| Publication date | May 7, 2024 |
| Language | English |
| Print length | 304 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 1476785112 |
| ISBN-13 | 10 |
| Item Weight | 2.31 pounds |
| Dimensions | 6 x 1 x 9 inches |
| Book 2 of 2 | Eilis Lacey |
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Better than Brooklyn!
Format: Hardcover
Read the previous book, Brooklyn, or see the movie. That will set you up nicely for where this one starts. Brooklyn, the novel, is short, understated—in fact, it wasn’t until the end that I appreciated it fully. But Long Island? Not just the best of the two books, but a deeply felt surprise. I went into this not expecting much; in fact, I thought it would be a strained sequel. Wow, was I ever wrong! Long Island will make my top ten of the year. These characters do not go away when you close the last page. I’m hoping for a trilogy. But I am not going to give even circumspect clues about how Tóibín ends things. That in itself would be a spoiler. Long Island takes place twenty years post-Brooklyn, sometime in the 1970s now, and Irish-born Eilis has two teenage children with her husband, Italian American born Tony Fiorello. Tony has made a mess of things just recently (all for the reader to discover in the first few pages), and it is practically impossible for Eilis to think peacefully on her own. She is surrounded here in a cul-de-sac by Tony’s family in several of the houses. Everyone in the family knows everyone’s business, it’s just too much for Eilis right now. Eilis’s mother and a brother are in Ireland, and have never met her children. She resolves to return home for a long visit, stay several weeks (if not months) before her children fly up to accompany her for their first visit. Of course, there’s drama in the gossipy village of Enniscorthy where Eilis grew up, and ghosts from her past that are living, breathing individuals, are ready to haunt or heat up at every turn. Besides her difficult mother, there’s the man she left behind, Jim Farrell. He runs one of the most popular pubs in town. Has never married. Most of the novel is set in Ireland, as we follow Eilis and her children. The pace is perfect, never ever a dull moment. The prose reads with the alacrity of a gazelle, sprinting freely, yet fully dimensional in details and the authenticity of human dilemma. It’s real, folks! It’s suspenseful and thrilling, and the stakes just get higher and tighter as the pages turn. Oh, those stakes---a few went almost straight through my heart and bled me out. Don’t worry---there is nothing melodramatic about this novel—that’s just me with my heart in their teeth. It is just as restrained as it needs to be, while also being fulsome and forthright. You never know what will happen next. The riskier the conduct, the more your own heart will pump and panic in equal measure. What you have and what you left behind rub up against each other, and Eilis is compelled by unfinished business back in Enniscorthy. Broken bonds lay open and exposed, the harm to all the characters gradually revealed. As Eilis appraises her life and considers her options, she fully grasps the urgency to go back to her past in order to secure her future. I must add my awe at how Tóibín develops characters with such sublime attention to the minute contradictions in human behavior, and how our outward-facing temperament may be highly interpretive. For example, Jim acts like what we know as *the strong silent type.* Is that why he is fiercely selective with his words? Tentative with weighty actions? Guarded about his life? Well, as quiet and restrained as he is, there is more than one way to interpret his personal style and cautious choices. The ending will blow you away, and that’s all I will say about that. The author effortlessly crafts his tale, and he never intrudes on the action. Tóibín’s cast run the show—they fluently forward the plot with palpable intimacy. And enigma. For all their transparency, the reader won’t easily pierce the inexorable. The author steps out and lets them at it. Eilis—the entire cast-- continue to carry on in my life. I can’t let them go, they are flawed, unforgettable, human. Eilis especially is inscribed in my personal atlas of eternal literary characters. In the space where truth-in-fiction exists, Eilis Lacey will endure. The story’s spry, subtle, and scintillating style was brilliant. I want another sequel and I rarely say that! Addendum: Norah Webster makes a cameo appearance. Background color basically. But it made me think about the Lucy Barton/Olive Kitteridge-verse. Tóibín has well established the Eilis Lacy-verse, and I'm a fan of him continuing to explore these nervy characters in both Enniscorthy and Long Island.
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Reviewed in the United States on May 21, 2024 by switterbug/Betsey Van Horn
Interesting story
Format: Kindle
The ending left you hanging. The characters at times were hard to follow. I have not read any other books by this author. So I'm not sure if there is another book to follow this one. Not bad but could have been better.
Reviewed in the United States on May 31, 2025 by Kindle Customer
Some endings should be left alone
Format: Hardcover
I never buy books sight unseen. I get them from the library and if they're good, then I buy them in order to support the author. In this case, I broke my own rule. When I saw that this was the continuation of Eilish and Tony's story, I ordered it new. It begins with a devastating announcement, made to Eilish by a strange man who comes to her door. Tony has impregnated the man's wife, and he is going to drop the baby on Eilish's porch when it arrives. So - right off the bat, sweet Tony, who loved and sought out Eilish, has become a villain, and Eilish has no one to help her deal with the consequences of Tony's action. And it goes downhill from there. A friend of mine who also read it said that by the end she did not like any of the characters. Nor did I. And poor Jim Farrell gets screwed again. Now I know that this is not pulp fiction. It's a literary novel so we have to have the depths of the human condition plumbed and all that. And humans fail and hurt each other. So Tony and his family hurt Eilish, and she turns around and eviscerates Jim a 2nd time. And she does that because Nancy, fighting for her own happiness, lies to Eilish. What a mess! What a downer of an ending. I plan to just remember the end of Brooklyn, to pull the wool over my own eyes, and to think of them all living loving lives with each other on Long Island.
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Reviewed in the United States on June 9, 2024 by Kathleen F Lamantia
How Much Do I Owe Myself?
Format: Hardcover
Prepare to put everything aside once you open this novel. Colm Toibin has done it again, writing a follow-up to his much-loved 'Brooklyn'. I recommend that readers check out 'Brooklyn' prior to reading 'Long Island'. This will familiarize you with Eilis and Jim Farrell, two main protagonists in this book. 'Long Island' takes place a couple of decades after Eilis last visited Enniscorthy, her hometown in Ireland. She is now married and has two teen-aged children. She lives on a cul-de-sac with her husband's family - brothers, in-laws - always intruding in her life in both subtle and coercive ways. Eilis feels stuck. She left an overbearing mother in Ireland and now finds herself encrypted into her husband's family which makes it very difficult for her to individuate. One day, totally out of the blue, there is a knock on Eilis's door and she is delivered some life-changing news. It impacts her family in big ways and it also involves her husband and his family. She feels subjugated. The only member of her husband's family who is helpful is Frank, her brother-in-law. He is a successful lawyer and is the only one of his family to live apart from the others. Eilis tries confiding in him but he, too, is enmeshed in the secrets and machinations of her husband's clan. He does, however, give her some money that will help her to go back to Ireland. Eilis leaves for Ennniscorthy with no finite plan for return; all is open-ended. She stays with her mother who is mean-spirited and critical of Eilis. While in Enniscorthy, she refuels relationships from her younger years and gets quite involved with the people from her past. Toibin has a marvelous way with words. I felt I was right there with Eilis, facing the difficult decisions she had in front of her. This is a novel of love lost and love found, the importance of making the right decisions and the fallback from the past that lands in the future. There is grief, hope, love, friendship and family in this novel. Toibin keeps it lively and there are some major surprises in store for Eilis and the town of Enniscorthy. I love Irish literature and Mr. Toibin is one of the reasons why.
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Reviewed in the United States on June 10, 2024 by Bonnie Brody
wow what an ending
Format: Kindle
Love is so complicated. Timing is also of the essence. Great read. What if’s are difficult to come by. Toibin really captures the fork in the road when when comes to loving someone.
Reviewed in the United States on September 13, 2026 by Dr. Sheena
LOVED THIS BOOK
Format: Kindle
It is interesting to see the divided reviews for this book. People either loved it or hated it. I am in the "loved it" category. The book is a sequel to "Brooklyn" which I also loved. It is important to read or watch the movie "Brooklyn" first in order to discover the backstory of Eilis and Tony. I don't want to spoil the book for other readers but will say that the marriage between Eilis and Tony is in trouble. They are living in a family "compound" in Long Island where Eilis is treated like an outsider by Tony's family who take his side in a serious marital upheaval. At that point, Eilis returns to Ireland where her teenaged children join her after they finish the school year. The book is about Eilis and her life in Ireland which ended very unsatisfactorily. Many readers hated it and said that the book had "no ending." In fact, it DID have an ending. Just not one that I and many other readers found acceptable. I would not have done what Eilis did but this is not MY story, rather, it is hers. I love Colm Toibin's writing and especially enjoyed his careful unfolding of the story and his detailed description of the characters and their internal thoughts. I am wondering if there is a third book in the works about Eilis Lacey. I hope so.
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Reviewed in the United States on September 12, 2025 by E. Piper
Disappointing
Format: Kindle
Others have said it. There is no resolution. The book ends without our knowing what’s to become of the characters. I loved BROOKLYN and loved the characters. But they’re now older and acting in ways that are uncharacteristic and really makes them all seem more like teenagers than mature adults. It was a riveting book and I kept reading. But I hated the fact that the author just ended the book abruptly almost as if he had no idea what to do with the mess he had created. It ended in such a way that we have no idea what will happen next.
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Reviewed in the United States on May 24, 2024 by Aga
Strains The Reader’s Credulity Just a Bit Too Much
Format: Kindle
In this second novel centering around the Irish emigre Eilis Lacey, Toibin brilliantly evokes the atmosphere of a small town where “…everyone knows everything.” Two small towns, actually — the Irish town Eilis fled from in the first novel, “Brooklyn,” and the cloying, extended family that surrounds her in America in “Long Island.” Everyone, everywhere, holds secrets that, if revealed, would destroy them — or so they think. No spoilers in this review, but suffice it to say that Toibin’s two central characters act in ways that beggar belief. This didn’t prevent me from greatly enjoying Toibin’s wonderful, well-paced writing, but left a small sense of disappointment. Whether you end up agreeing with me or not, you’ll find this book well worth your time.
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Reviewed in the United States on June 8, 2024 by Spectre