top of page
Howlin' Book Club
Howlin' Book Club

Thu, Aug 29

|

Howling Basset Books

Howlin' Book Club

Long Island by Colm Tóibín

Registration is closed
See other events

Time & Location

Aug 29, 2024, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM

Howling Basset Books, 30 Old Turnpike Rd, Whitehouse Station, NJ 08889, USA

Guests

About the event

Long Island is Colm Tóibín’s masterpiece: an exquisite, exhilarating novel that asks whether it is possible to truly return to the past and renew the great love that seemed gone forever. The sequel to Colm Tóibín's prize-winning, bestselling novel Brooklyn. A man with an Irish accent knocks on Eilis Fiorello’s door on Long Island and in that moment everything changes. Eilis and Tony have built a secure, happy life here since leaving Brooklyn - perhaps a little stifled by the in-laws so close, but twenty years married and with two children looking towards a good future. And yet this stranger will reveal something that will make Eilis question the life she has created. For the first time in years she suddenly feels very far from home and the revelation will see her turn towards Ireland once again. Back to her mother. Back to the town and the people she had chosen to leave behind. Did she make the wrong choice marrying Tony all those years ago? Is it too late now to take a different path?

Share this event

bottom of page