Brooklyn - Colm Toibin

I loved Blackwater Light Ship and I loved this book too . Its great . His books are full of brothers , sisters parents and neighbours . That is the world I know and that I can relate too .

This book is about leaving home cause you have to and when you come back you realise that you would give anything to just settle back into the comfort of the known . But you cant , you never can

Reminded me so much of young girls in India who are married to total strangers and leave everything to go and live in their new homes .When they come back for a visit its a flurry of activity and pampering and no one speaks of the impending departure.