{"id":52096,"date":"2024-05-15T06:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-05-15T11:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=52096"},"modified":"2024-05-09T10:03:22","modified_gmt":"2024-05-09T15:03:22","slug":"oprahs-latest-book-club-pick-long-island-by-colm-toibin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/oprahs-latest-book-club-pick-long-island-by-colm-toibin\/","title":{"rendered":"Oprah’s Latest Book Club Pick: Long Island by Colm T\u00f3ib\u00edn"},"content":{"rendered":"

Join\u00a0Simply Held<\/a> to have certain celebrity book club picks automatically put on hold for you: Reese Witherspoon, Jenna Bush Hager, and Oprah Winfrey. While Reese and Jenna generally announce a new title each month, Oprah\u2019s selections are more sporadic. She has announced her newest selection:\u00a0Long Island <\/strong><\/em><\/a>by Colm T\u00f3ib\u00edn.\u00a0Reminder that if you join Simply Held, you can choose to have these titles automatically put on hold for you.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Oprah Winfrey has selected\u00a0Long Island<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Colm T\u00f3ib\u00edn.<\/p>\n

Curious what Long Island<\/em><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/a>is about? Check out the following description provided by the publisher.<\/p>\n

From the beloved, critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author comes a spectacularly moving and intense novel of secrecy, misunderstanding, and love, the story of Eilis Lacey, the complex and enigmatic heroine of Brooklyn, T\u00f3ib\u00edn\u2019s most popular work twenty years later.<\/em><\/p>\n

Eilis Lacey 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\u2019s 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.<\/em><\/p>\n

One day, when Tony is at his job and Eilis is in her home office doing her accounting, an Irishman comes to the door asking for her by name. He tells her that his wife is pregnant with Tony\u2019s child and that when the baby is born, he will not raise it but instead deposit it on Eilis\u2019s doorstep. It is what Eilis does\u2014and what she refuses to do\u2014in response to this stunning news that makes T\u00f3ib\u00edn\u2019s novel so riveting.<\/em><\/p>\n

Long Island is about longings unfulfilled, even unrecognized. The silences in Eilis\u2019 life are thunderous and dangerous, and there\u2019s no one more deft than T\u00f3ib\u00edn at giving them language. This is a gorgeous story of a woman alone in a marriage and the deepest bonds she rekindles on her return to the place and people she left behind, to ways of living and loving she thought she\u2019d lost.<\/em> – Scribner<\/p>\n

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Join\u00a0Simply Held<\/a>\u00a0to have Oprah, Jenna, and Reese\u2019s adult selections automatically put on hold for you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Join\u00a0Simply Held to have certain celebrity book club picks automatically put on hold for you: Reese Witherspoon, Jenna Bush Hager, and Oprah Winfrey. While Reese and Jenna generally announce a new title each month, Oprah\u2019s selections are more sporadic. She has announced her newest selection:\u00a0Long Island by Colm T\u00f3ib\u00edn.\u00a0Reminder that[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,1,7651,8],"tags":[5281,8422,5481,5299,2538,6397],"class_list":["post-52096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-reference","category-simply-held","category-staff-picks","tag-celebrity-book-club","tag-colm-toibin","tag-long-island","tag-oprah","tag-oprah-winfrey","tag-simply-held"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-dyg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52096"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52100,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52096\/revisions\/52100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}