Brooklyn

I enjoyed Brooklyn by Colm Toibin which is set in the early 1950s.  A young Irish woman, Eilis Lacey, migrates to Brooklyn to begin a new life.  She  is settled in her job, falls in love and studies bookkeeping to better her employment prospects.  She is suddenly recalled to Ireland and stays longer than she planned, then reconsiders whether she returns to Brooklyn.  She struggles with the pull of her homeland and the new life she's established in Brooklyn and must decide between the two.