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OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK * INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * ""Stunning."" --People * ""Dazzling yet devastating...Tóibín is simply one of the world's best living literary writers."" --The Boston Globe * ""Momentous and hugely affecting."" --The Wall Street Journal * From the beloved, critically acclaimed, bestselling author comes a spectacularly moving novel featuring Eilis Lacey, the complex and enigmatic heroine of Brooklyn, Tóibín's most popular work in twenty years. Eilis Lacey is Irish, married to Tony Fiorello, a plumber and one of four Italian American brothers, all of whom live in neighboring houses on a cul-de-sac in Lindenhurst, Long Island, with their wives and children and Tony's parents, a huge extended family. It is the spring of 1976 and Eilis is now forty with two teenage children. Though her ties to Ireland remain stronger than those that hold her to her new land and home, she has not returned in decades. One day, when Tony is at work an Irishman comes to the door asking for Eilis by name. He tells her that his wife is pregnant with Tony's child and that when the baby is born, he 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 and suspenseful. Long Island is a gorgeous story ""about a woman thrashing against the constraints of fate"" (Maureen Corrigan, Fresh Air). It is ""a wonder, rich with yearning and regret"" (Star Tribune, Minneapolis).

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"Praise for Long Island ""The quiet, moving story is told from the perspectives of different characters, each with a heartbreaking inability to express what they truly desire. Note that you don't need to have read Brooklyn to enjoy this follow-up."" --AARP ""Quietly devastating... T�ib�n is brilliant at tallying the weight of what goes unsaid between people...and at using quotidian situations to illuminate longing as a universal and often-inescapable aspect of the human condition. T�ib�n's mastery is on full display here."" --Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEW ""T�ib�n writes with unparalleled fluidity and grace. Each character is intricately drawn with psychological acuity, emerging as fully, almost achingly human. T�ib�n is a philosopher of the soul. He understands the complex emotions, the dreams, fear, doubt, and hope that drive human activity. Eilis is complicated, fearless, and compelling, much like her brilliant creator. Readers will be thrilled by T�ib�n's return to the story of Irish immigrant Eilis Lacey."" --Booklist, STARRED review ""An acclaimed novelist revisits the central characters of his best-known work... Eilis' fate is determined in a plot twist worthy of Edith Wharton...the author is a master of quiet, restrained prose, calmly observing the mores and mindsets of provincial Ireland, not much changed from the 1950s. A moving portrait of rueful middle age and the failure to connect."" --Kirkus, STARRED review ""You don't have to have read Brooklyn to enjoy the many pleasures of Long Island. It is a masterful novel full of longing and regret. A tale of lovers reconnecting, of compromise, and the settling that can come later in life. Intensely moving and yet full of restraint, I was sad to turn the final page."" --Douglas Stuart, author of Young Mungo and Shuggie Bain ""Colm T�ib�n's new book is his best yet. It kept me rapt all the way back from Mexico; it reads like the tensest of stage plays, but with all the pleasures of interiority that the novel form allows. I haven't wanted to hug this many characters in a while."" --Naoise Dolan, author of Exciting Times and The Happy Couple Praise for Brooklyn ""T�ib�n creates suspense out of the simplest emotions: fear, love and, most poignantly, regret."" --Time ""Eilis' universal struggles with matters of the heart ... make this novel ... a moving, deeply satisfying read."" --Entertainment Weekly ""[A] triumph... One of those magically quiet novels that sneak up on readers and capture their imaginations."" --USA Today ""A gem of a novel... profound."" --Maureen Corrigan, NPR ""Quietly majestic."" --Claire Messud, The New York Review of Books ""Written with mesmerizing power and skill."" --Richard Eder, Boston Globe ""Colm T�ib�n ... [is] his generation's most gifted writer of love's complicated, contradictory power."" --Floyd Skoot, Los Angeles Times ""A masterly tale... There is not a sentence or a thought out of place.... His finest fiction to date."" --Bernard O'Donoghue, Irish Times ""A classical coming-of-age story, pure, unsensationalized, quietly profound... There are no antagonists in this novel, no psychodramas, no angst. There is only the sound of a young woman slowly and deliberately stepping into herself, learning to make and stand behind her choices, finding herself."" --Pam Houston, O, the Oprah Magazine"

"Praise for Brooklyn ""Tóibín creates suspense out of the simplest emotions: fear, love and, most poignantly, regret."" --Time ""Eilis' universal struggles with matters of the heart ... make this novel ... a moving, deeply satisfying read."" --Entertainment Weekly ""[A] triumph... One of those magically quiet novels that sneak up on readers and capture their imaginations."" --USA Today ""[A] gem of a novel... profound."" --Maureen Corrigan, NPR ""Quietly majestic."" --Claire Messud, The New York Review of Books ""Written with mesmerizing power and skill."" --Richard Eder, Boston Globe ""Colm Tóibín ... [is] his generation's most gifted writer of love's complicated, contradictory power."" --Floyd Skoot, Los Angeles Times ""[A] masterly tale... There is not a sentence or a thought out of place.... His finest fiction to date."" --Bernard O'Donoghue, Irish Times ""A classical coming-of-age story, pure, unsensationalized, quietly profound... There are no antagonists in this novel, no psychodramas, no angst. There is only the sound of a young woman slowly and deliberately stepping into herself, learning to make and stand behind her choices, finding herself."" --Pam Houston, O, the Oprah Magazine Praise for Long Island ""Colm Tóibín's new book is his best yet. It kept me rapt all the way back from Mexico; it reads like the tensest of stage plays, but with all the pleasures of interiority that the novel form allows. I haven't wanted to hug this many characters in a while."" --Naoise Dolan, author of Exciting Times and The Happy Couple"

"Praise for Long Island ""I was captivated. A wonderful page-turner to start your summer reading."" --Oprah Winfrey ""Eilis is an interesting and vivid character because she manages to make her destiny her choice... In her own mind, and in the eyes of sympathetic readers, she is free."" --New York Times Book Review ""Deeply felt but resolutely unsentimental... T�ib�n uses masterly restraint to dramatize how lives can be destabilized by desire."" --The New Yorker ""Stunning."" --People ""T�ib�n, a master of his art, exploits to exquisite effect at the end, leaving us to wonder, yet again, what's next."" --Los Angeles Times ""Momentous and hugely affecting. These pendant novels, will be the fiction for which this wonderful writer is best remembered."" --Wall Street Journal ""T�ib�n has created a novel not to be missed."" --Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ""Rich and doubly suspenseful... T�ib�n, a master of his art, exploits to exquisite effect at the end, leaving us to wonder, yet again, what's next."" --Los Angeles Times ""Dazzling yet devastating... T�ib�n is simply one of the world's best living literary writers..."" --The Boston Globe ""About secrets and dreams and the conflict of desire over duty... Long Island is a wonder, rich with yearning and regret."" --Minneapolis Star Tribune ""T�ib�n's storytelling is rich and full of tension as he explores the complexities of life, the decisions we make, and the consequences that result."" --Glamour ""Fifteen years ago, Colm T�ib�n won readers' hearts with his best-selling novel Brooklyn. Now, with the sequel, Long Island, he just might break them... T�ib�n writes beautifully about the struggle between the comfort of the familiar and the hope for something better."" --Columbia Magazine ""T�ib�n's latest sees the return of one of his most beloved heroines from his novel Brooklyn and deftly explores the longings of a woman who finds herself alone in her tilted marriage."" --The Chicago Review of Books ""A close observer of human nature, T�ib�n writes with great depth of longing... Often it is what is unsaid, contained in the pauses, that grips the reader's attention. There is plenty of beauty to savor."" --BookPage ""Quietly devastating... T�ib�n is brilliant at tallying the weight of what goes unsaid between people... T�ib�n's mastery is on full display here."" --Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEW ""T�ib�n writes with unparalleled fluidity and grace. Each character is intricately drawn with psychological acuity, emerging as fully, almost achingly human. Eilis is complicated, fearless, and compelling, much like her brilliant creator."" --Booklist, STARRED review ""Eilis' fate is determined in a plot twist worthy of Edith Wharton...the author is a master of quiet, restrained prose, calmly observing the mores and mindsets of provincial Ireland. A moving portrait of rueful middle age and the failure to connect."" --Kirkus, STARRED review"

"Praise for Long Island ""An acclaimed novelist revisits the central characters of his best-known work... Eilis' fate is determined in a plot twist worthy of Edith Wharton...the author is a master of quiet, restrained prose, calmly observing the mores and mindsets of provincial Ireland, not much changed from the 1950s. A moving portrait of rueful middle age and the failure to connect."" --Kirkus Reviews, STARRED review ""You don't have to have read Brooklyn to enjoy the many pleasures of Long Island. It is a masterful novel full of longing and regret. A tale of lovers reconnecting, of compromise, and the settling that can come later in life. Intensely moving and yet full of restraint, I was sad to turn the final page."" --Douglas Stuart, author of Young Mungo and Shuggie Bain ""Colm Tóibín's new book is his best yet. It kept me rapt all the way back from Mexico; it reads like the tensest of stage plays, but with all the pleasures of interiority that the novel form allows. I haven't wanted to hug this many characters in a while."" --Naoise Dolan, author of Exciting Times and The Happy Couple Praise for Brooklyn ""Tóibín creates suspense out of the simplest emotions: fear, love and, most poignantly, regret."" --Time ""Eilis' universal struggles with matters of the heart ... make this novel ... a moving, deeply satisfying read."" --Entertainment Weekly ""[A] triumph... One of those magically quiet novels that sneak up on readers and capture their imaginations."" --USA Today ""A gem of a novel... profound."" --Maureen Corrigan, NPR ""Quietly majestic."" --Claire Messud, The New York Review of Books ""Written with mesmerizing power and skill."" --Richard Eder, Boston Globe ""Colm Tóibín ... [is] his generation's most gifted writer of love's complicated, contradictory power."" --Floyd Skoot, Los Angeles Times ""A masterly tale... There is not a sentence or a thought out of place.... His finest fiction to date."" --Bernard O'Donoghue, Irish Times ""A classical coming-of-age story, pure, unsensationalized, quietly profound... There are no antagonists in this novel, no psychodramas, no angst. There is only the sound of a young woman slowly and deliberately stepping into herself, learning to make and stand behind her choices, finding herself."" --Pam Houston, O, the Oprah Magazine"

Author Information

Colm Tóibín is the author of eleven novels, including Long Island, an Oprah's Book Club Pick; The Magician, winner of the Rathbones Folio Prize; The Master, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; Brooklyn, winner of the Costa Book Award; The Testament of Mary; and Nora Webster; as well as two story collections and several books of criticism. He is the Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University and has been named as the Laureate for Irish Fiction for 2022-2024 by the Arts Council of Ireland. Three times shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Tóibín lives in Dublin and New York.

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