Finished: Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín 

This is another prize winning book that got mixed responses on LibraryThing. For me it was short but (bitter)sweet. It reads as one long story, divided in a few parts but no chapters. Sometimes the timeline was a bit murky, but the story itself was great. It is about a young woman from Ireland who emigrates to the US, Brooklyn, in the hope of a better life. The move itself is hard, but the choices she faces are even harder. Four out of five stars.