MEET THE AUTHOR – COLM TOIBIN
Join us for a conversation with beloved, bestselling author Colm Tóibín, in celebration of the release of his newest novel, Long Island. Colm will be signing copies of Long Island, A Guest at The Feast: Essays and Brooklyn, which will be for sale after the program. Prices including 10% discount and sales tax will be: Long Island $27.38, A Guest At The Feast $17.60, and Brooklyn $17.60. Cash, credit cards and Venmo will be accepted.
Register online by clicking on this link, or by calling 516-794-2570, option 3.
If you are unable to attend in person, the event will be streamed, https://www.youtube.com/live/OioguCXiZ8s?si=mLknP52ZXNQTk9Aw .
The eBook version of Long Island can be accessed through the Nassau Digital Doorway.
Long Island is a spectacularly moving and intense novel of secrecy, misunderstanding, and love, the story of Eilis Lacey, the complex and enigmatic heroine of Brooklyn, Tóibín’s most popular work twenty years later. Eilis is Irish, married to Tony Fiorello, a plumber and one of four Italian American brothers, all of whom live in neighboring houses on a cul-de-sac in Lindenhurst, Long Island, with their wives and children and Tony's parents, a huge extended family that lives and works, eats and plays together. It is the spring of 1976 and Eilis, now in her forties with two teenage children, has no one to rely on in this still-new country. Though her ties to Ireland remain stronger than those that hold her to her new land and home, she has not returned in decades.
Oprah Winfrey’s new book club pick is Colm Tóibín’s Long Island!
