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Vaclav and Lena seem destined for each other. They meet as children in an ESL class in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn. Vaclav is precocious and verbal. Lena, struggling with English, takes comfort in the safety of his adoration, his noisy, loving home, and the care of Rasia, his big-hearted mother. Vaclav imagines their story unfolding like a fairy tale, or the perfect illusion from his treasured Magician's Almanac, but among the many truths to be discovered is that happily ever after is never a foregone conclusion. One day, Lena does not show up for school. She has disappeared from Vaclav and his family's lives as if by a cruel magic trick. For the next seven years, Vaclav says goodnight to Lena without fail, wondering if she is doing the same somewhere. On the eve of Lena's seventeenth birthday he finds out.
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Design --- History --- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
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Retired life insurance salesman Nathan Glass moves to Brooklyn to find anonymity and solitude through his declining years, but a chance meeting with Tom Wood, his long-lost nephew, forces him to come to terms with his past.
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) --- Fiction --- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) - Fiction
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Hauntingly beautiful and heartbreaking, Colm Tóibi;n'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. Eilis Lacey has come of age in small-town Ireland in the years following World War Two. Though skilled at bookkeeping, she cannot find a job in the miserable Irish economy. When an Irish priest from Brooklyn to sponsor Eilis in America -- to live and work in a Brooklyn neighborhood "just like Ireland" -- she decides she must go, leaving her fragile mother and her charismatic sister behind.Eilis finds work in a department store on Fulton Street, and when she least expects it, finds love. Tony, a blond Italian from a big family, slowly wins her over with patient charm. He takes Eilis to Coney Island and Ebbets Field, and home to dinner in the two-room apartment he shares with his brothers and parents. He talks of having children who are Dodgers fans. But just as Eilis begins to fall in love with Tony, devastating news from Ireland threatens the promise of her future.By far Tóibi;n's most instantly engaging and emotionally resonant novel, 'Brooklyn' will make readers fall in love with his gorgeous writing and spellbinding characters.
Irish --- Women immigrants --- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) --- Ireland --- History
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Young Francie Nolan, having inherited both her father's romantic and her mother's practical nature, struggles to survive and thrive growing up in the slums of Brooklyn in the early twentieth century.
Domestic fiction. --- Girls --- Girls --- Girls --- Girls. --- Poor families --- Poor families --- Poor families --- Poor families. --- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) --- New York (State) --- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.). --- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) --- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
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Young women --- Sexual behavior --- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
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Swedish Americans --- Providence (R.I.) --- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
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Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) --- History --- Politics and government.
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