One summer read I'd recommend for your summer 2016 list is Brooklyn by Colm Toibin. I recommended it to a friend of mine who told me she was going to see the movie but someone told her "Read the book first!"
Purist.
I saw the movie first and then read the book, and no literary sand shifted under my feet. But, hey, to each her own.
Brooklyn is the story of a Eilis, a young Irish immigrant who comes to Brooklyn in the 1950's. In the movie, I adored the genre viewing: the clothes, the shoes, the music, the 50's depiction of New York. The actors were all chosen well and the movie was adapted from the novel quite nicely.
The book was well written and the dialogue and characters are well done.
A great tale, in either format, of an immigrant and the long term consequences of her choices.
My only warning is that there's adult content in both the movie and the book. I just skip through it, but I passed my copy of the book along so my voracious reader kid wouldn't stumble upon it. My guess is that will be a book club read for my book club eventually, and I'll just borrow another copy.
Worth reading? Yes.
Good characters, writing, plot, and historical value? Yes, yes, and yes.
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