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| June 01, 2009 | O'Grady, Megan | COPYRIGHT 2009 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Condé Nast Publications Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

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 ...

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