Brookland by Emily Barton

Brookland by Emily Barton is a 478-page hardcover published in 2006 by Picador.  The book is in very good condition. Book Summary Since her girlhood, Prudence Winship has gazed across the title straits from her home in Brooklyn to the city of Manhattan and yearned to bridge the distance. Now, firmly established as the owner of an enormously successful gin distillery she inherited from her father, she can begin to realize her dream. Set in eighteenth-century Brooklyn, this is the story of a woman with a vision: a gargantuan construction of timber and masonry to span the East River. With the help of her sisters--high-spirited Tem and silent, uncanny Pearl--Prue fires the imaginations of the people of Brooklyn and New York by promising them easy passage between their two worlds. Beautifully written and breathtaking in scope, Brookland "reaffirm the unswerving adage of the novel reader:  Describe a world well enough and I am its member.  This is the voice of a great novelist " (David Thomp