![]() ![]() ![]() Everything is pretty cool and exciting, but Eilis gets slammed by intense feelings of homesickness after receiving her first letters from the fam. Kehoe and gets a job at Bartocci's Department Store. There she moves into a boardinghouse run by an Irishwoman named Mrs. Fast-forward a few weeks and suddenly our young heroine is on an ocean liner heading straight towards big city Brooklyn. Eilis is hesitant-naturally-but she doesn't really have a choice in the matter. She lives a pretty boring existence, hanging at home and going to school to become a bookkeeper.Įverything changes when Rose introduces her to Father Flood, a priest who wants to help Eilis immigrate to America to find work. Eilis Lacey lives in a small town in Ireland with her mother and older sister Rose. ![]()
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