Join us for this month's Literary Luncheon to discuss Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín.

Click here to request the book through the online catalog. You may also visit the library to pick up a copy while supplies last.

No registration is required and new members are always welcome. Drop in!

Book Summary: Eilis Lacey is unable to find a job in Ireland in the years following World War II. An Irish priest from Brooklyn, New York offers to sponser her to live an work in America, so she decides she must go leaving her mother and sister behind. She adapts to her new life by working in a department store and the pain of parting has subsided until she receives devastating news from home that threatens the promise of her future.

Questions? Head of Circulation and Reader Services, Dede McManus at dmcmanus@hwlibrary.org