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by Colm Toibin
Published Feb 2025
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by Luis Alberto Urrea
Published Mar 2019
Read ReviewsThe definitive Mexican-American immigrant story, at once intimate and epic, from an acclaimed storyteller.
by Mary Costello
Published Apr 2016
Read ReviewsA vibrant, intimate, hypnotic portrait of one woman's life, from an important new writer.
by Colm Toibin
Published Mar 2010
Read ReviewsHauntingly beautiful and heartbreaking, Colm Tóibín's sixth novel, Brooklyn, is set in Brooklyn and Ireland in the early 1950s, when one young woman crosses the ocean to make a new life for herself.
by Alice Munro
Published Jan 2008
Read ReviewsA powerful new collection from one of our most beloved, admired, and honored writers.
by Melania G. Mazzucco
Published Sep 2006
Read ReviewsThe award-winning Italian author Melania G. Mazzucco weaves her own family history into a great American novel of the immigrant experience. A sweeping tale of discovery, love, and loss, Vita is a passionate blend of biography and autobiography, of fantasy and fiction.
by Frank Delaney
Published Feb 2006
Read ReviewsFrom a land famous for storytelling comes an epic novel that captures the intimate, passionate texture of the Irish spirit.
by Frank McCourt
Published May 1999
Read ReviewsImbued on every page with Frank McCourt's astounding humor and compassion. This is a glorious book that bears all the marks of a classic.
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