Vanessa L. (VanessaL) reviewed on 12/22/2011 + 26 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 4

This book brought me back to my own late teenage/early 20s years because Toibin so beautifully captured the mindset of a young woman entering adulthood. It amazed me that the book had been written by a man because the female characterization was spot on. Brooklyn doesn't have an intense, fast-paced plot line, but what I enjoyed was that it was a snapshot of a fairly ordinary young woman's life. She could be you or me, and I could relate to her emotional struggles, ambivalence and torn loyalties. The first half of the book was slow and I had difficulty making progress, but the second half took off and by the end, I was rushing through every page to find out what choices she'd made.

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