Colm Toibin

I personally found Brooklyn‘s language to be rather plain and dull. I did not enjoy it. However’ Colm Toibin did provide some interesting insight on his thought process. Being an Irish immigrant himself, it was quite a personal experience for him. He didn’t simply imagine himself in Brooklyn. He said he actually asked a friend of his in Brooklyn if he could use his house for the book. Toibin went to the house and placed characters in certain places. He said he even met the daughter of this woman he wrote about. I think this workshop was a very interesting experience.