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April 20: Alumni Book Club Reads Colm Tóibín’s Brooklyn
April 20, 2010
Date: Tuesday, April 20
Time: 5:30-7 p.m.
Location: MMC, Regina Peruggi Room (2nd Floor, Main Building)
Cost: Free (Refreshments and snacks will be served)
Contact: If you would like to R.S.V.P., please e-mail sluchs@mmm.edu or call (212) 517-0458.
The Alumni Book Club will discuss Colm Toibin’s Brooklyn on April 20. Set in Enniscorthy in the southeast of Ireland during the early 1950s, Eilis Lacey is one among many of her generation who cannot find work at home. Thus when a job is offered in America, it is clear to everyone that she must go. Leaving her family and country, Eilis heads for unfamiliar Brooklyn, and to a crowded boarding house where the landlady’s intense scrutiny and the small jealousies of her fellow residents only deepen her isolation. Slowly, however, the pain of parting is buried beneath the rhythms of her new life — until she begins to realize that she has found a sort of happiness. As she falls in love, news comes from home that forces her back to Enniscorthy, not to the constrictions of her old life, but to new possibilities which conflict deeply with the life she has left behind in Brooklyn.
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