![]() ![]() Her friend, Nancy Byrne, hopes to achieve a better life by marrying a man named George Sheridan, who is well-respected and relatively wealthy in their community. Eilis is smart, and dreams of being a bookkeeper like her sister, but there are simply no opportunities in the town, and economic and social advancement seems next to impossible. ![]() ![]() When Eilis finally does find work, it is a part-time job at a local grocery store owned by the notoriously snobby Miss Kelly, who looks down on her and her family. When the story opens, Eilis is struggling to find work, leaving her sister Rose to support Eilis and their mother by herself. It follows the life of a young woman named Eilis Lacey. Brooklyn is set in Enniscorthy, Ireland in the 1950s. ![]()
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