A review by schylermartin
Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín

5.0

This book left me feeling melancholy and optimistic and mournful and inspired and above all, conflicted, and I liked that about it, because that's how life is, I think. It's never just one feeling. It's all about the multitudes. The highs and lows rarely exist independently. They blur together, the lines running so closely beside each other that they merge into one beautiful, consuming, confusing emotion. I'll revisit this book a lot when I need to remember that often it isn't about making the right choice, because sometimes there isn't a right choice or a wrong choice; there's just a choice, and what's important is making it and doing your best to move forward from there.