Showing results for "long-island" in Women's Fiction

En un nou exercici de narrativa magistral de Colm Tóibín, ens reunim amb Eilis Lacey, l’heroïna dels seu gran èxit de vendes Brooklyn. Vint anys després dels fets, als anys setanta, Eilis està vivint amb el seu marit, Tony Fiorello, i els seus fills en una casa a Long Island, massa a prop dels seus sogres. Una notícia impactant impulsa Eilis de tornada a Irlanda, a un món que ella creia que feia molt de temps que havia deixat enrere i maneres de viure, i estimar, que creia haver perdut per sempre.

Paulette Ince becomes desperate when Kevin Pool, 18, denies ownership of her pregnancy. She takes matters in her own hands and visits Martha Frederick, a woman who seemingly had connections to a neighborhood abortion clinic and one of the doctors named Dr Small. She sets up an appointment for Paulette to have an abortion. The morning of the abortion, a prolife activist and sanitation worker, Steven Lier, 35, who lost his sister to a tragic abortion performed by Dr. Small, discovers the live discarded fetus in the trash. With his mother, he rushes it along to the local hospital.