by Colm Tóibín is the sequel to his acclaimed 2009 novel Brooklyn, which chronicles a young woman in the 1950s torn between her old home in Ireland and the prospect of making a new one in America. Long Island picks up with Eilis 20 years later, in 1976, a mother of two teenagers living in the suburbia of the title, at the moment when her life is shattered. A strange man appears claiming that Eilis’s husband, Tony, has impregnated his wife and demands that Eilis take the baby. Caught between Tony’s family, who never really accepted her, and memories of her past, Eilis decides to return once again to Ireland, the homeland she hasn’t seen in more than two decades.