Hauntingly beautiful and heartbreaking, Colm Tóibín'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.

" In 1950's Brooklyn, sisters Rose and Pearl Weiss grow up in a loving but strict ultra-Orthodox family, never dreaming of defying their parents or their community's unbending and intrusive demands. Then, a chance meeting with a young French immigrant turns Rose's world upside down, its once bearable strictures suddenly tightening like a noose around her neck. Defiantly, she begins to live a secret life that shocks her family when it is discovered....

In 1980s Brooklyn, new student JJ Pankowski, an autistic punk rock lover, befriends Pie Velez, an Afro-Latinx math geek and graffiti artist.

When Casey gets into trouble hanging out with the wrong crowd in New Orleans, her parents decide to move back to their Orthodox Syrian Jewish community in Brooklyn--where, swayed by the community's Middle Eastern values and her parents' traditional wishes, Casey marries Michael at eighteen, thinking she can adjust to Sephardic ways. But can she?

Following a prophecy of a former resident of their Brooklyn alley, two boys discover an underground passage behind their houses.

In Brooklyn, New York, in 1947, a boy learns about discrimination and tolerance as he and his deaf father share their enthusiasm over baseball and the Dodgers' first baseman, Jackie Robinson.

In the summer of 1978, and Samantha Bonti is fifteen years old, half Jewish and half Italian and lives in Bensonhurst with her mother. Told from the adult perspective, this is a true-to-life novel of leaving the past to history and the future to fate--of restoring hope where there was none, and reaching for dreams in an inspiring promise of paradise called Manhattan.

In early twentieth century Brooklyn, Ruby endures many hardships including the flu epidemic, the death of family members, and even starvation, until her pitching talents open new opportunities in the changing world of sports for women.

Marina's mother is a worldwide star in the Soviet Union government. She is gifted with a second sight, developing an obsession with revealing a shocking state secret. When she disappears, Marina and her dad defect to New York. Marina struggles with her newly discovered "sight" just as her mother had. Marina envisions her dad's death and must now navigate the snare of deception surrounding the disappearance of her mother and figure out who can be trusted....