{"product_id":"long-island-oprahs-book-club","title":"Long Island (Oprah's Book Club)","description":"\u003cdiv data-a-expander-name=\"book_description_expander\" data-a-expander-collapsed-height=\"280\" class=\"a-expander-collapsed-height a-row a-expander-container a-spacing-base a-expander-partial-collapse-container\" style=\"max-height: none; height: 280px;\"\u003e \u003cdiv data-expanded=\"false\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px;\"\u003e \u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e* OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK * INSTANT \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNEW YORK TIMES \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eBESTSELLER *\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e* NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2024 BY \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eTIME \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eMAGAZINE\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e, THE NEW YORKER, WASHINGTON POST, VULTURE, GLAMOUR, FRESH AIR, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eNPR, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eTHE GUARDIAN, THE ECONOMIST, THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, THE TIMES \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e(London),\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eTHE IRISH TIMES,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eTHE NEW STATESMAN, THE INDEPENDENT, THE OBSERVER, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eand more *\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e“Stunning.” —\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003ePeople \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e* “Dazzling yet devastating...Tóibín is simply one of the world’s best living literary writers.” —\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e * “Momentous and hugely affecting.” —\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e *\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eFrom the beloved, critically acclaimed, bestselling author comes a spectacularly moving novel featuring Eilis Lacey, the complex and enigmatic heroine of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eBrooklyn\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e, Tóibín’s most popular work in twenty years.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEilis 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eOne 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eLong Island \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis a gorgeous story “about a woman thrashing against the constraints of fate” (Maureen Corrigan, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eFresh Air\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e). It is “a wonder, rich with yearning and regret” (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eStar Tribune\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Minneapolis).\u003c\/span\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e div\u0026gt;\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Scribner Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50111178047773,"sku":"9781476785127","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0901\/5692\/5213\/files\/9781476785127.jpg?v=1751041262","url":"https:\/\/bookdelico.com\/products\/long-island-oprahs-book-club","provider":"Book Delico ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}