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The critic highlighted it as a sequel that forms a diptych with Brooklyn, following a woman through two seasons of her life and opening with a startling revelation about her husband's infidelity.
Maureen Corrigan will review Colm Tobin's new novel Long Island, a sequel to his best-selling novel Brooklyn.
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The critic highlighted it as a sequel that forms a diptych with Brooklyn, following a woman through two seasons of her life and opening with a startling revelation about her husband's infidelity.
Maureen Corrigan will review Colm Tobin's new novel Long Island, a sequel to his best-selling novel Brooklyn.
Long Island, together with Brooklyn, is a devastating diptych about a woman in two different seasons of her life, thrashing against the constraints of fate.
The opening shocker on the second page of Long Island is that the easygoing Tony, her husband of now 20 years, has been getting restless himself.
Long Island opens in 1976 when a strange man appears at Eilish's door and bluntly announces that Tony has impregnated his wife.
Our book critic, Maureen Corrigan, says she's glad Tobin followed his instincts.