~ Trade Paperback
~ New Release - 2025
A spectacularly moving and intense novel of secrecy, misunderstanding, and love, Long Island returns to the story of Eilis Lacey (the complex and enigmatic heroine of Brooklyn, Colm Tóibín’s most popular work) twenty years later . . .
An exquisitely penned novel, Long Island is about longings unfulfilled (or even unrecognized), a woman alone in a marriage and the deep bonds she uncovers as she rekindles her soul with a return to the place/people she left behind, and to the ways of living/loving she thought she had lost.
"With Tóibín's deft eye for detail he creates a story that is altogether painful and maddening to witness, yet impossible to turn away from.” -- Shelf Awareness