Long Island

From the beloved,critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author comes a spectacularly moving and intense novel of secrecymisunderstandingand lovethe story of Eilis Laceythe complex and enigmatic heroine of BrooklynTóibín’s most popular work twenty years later. Eilis Lacey is Irishmarried to Tony Fiorelloa plumber and one of four Italian American brothersall of whom live in neighboring houses on a cul-de-sac in LindenhurstLong Islandwith their wives and children and Tony’s parentsa huge extended family that lives and workseats and plays together. It is the spring of 1976 and Eilisnow in her forties with two teenage childrenhas no one to rely on in this still-new country. Though her ties to Ireland remain stronger than those that hold her to her new land and homeshe has not returned in decades. One daywhen Tony is at his job and Eilis is in her home office doing her accountingan Irishman comes to the door asking for her by name. He tells her that his wife is pregnant with Tony’s child and that when the baby is bornhe 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. Long Island is about longings unfulfilledeven unrecognized. The silences in Eilis’ life are thunderous and dangerousand there’s no one more deft than Tóibín at giving them language. This 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 behindto ways of living and loving she thought she’d lost.