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Byline: MEGAN O'GRADY editor: Valerie Steiker
Colm Toibin's masterly latest, Brooklyn (Scribner), captures the wonderment of an Irish girl in 1950s New York. A more ambivalent take on the American dream, Aleksandar Hemon's collection of darkly antic stories, Love and Obstacles (Riverhead), is a portrait of a writer as a young Bosnian emigre. The glamour of prewar Shanghai is recalled in Lisa See's deftly plotted Shanghai Girls (Random House), in which a pair of urbane sisters are forced ...