Genre: Novel
Grade: A-
Notable People: Jonathan Letham
Title: Motherless Brooklyn
Review –DAMN, SHIT, PUKE, CRAP, FUCK……Letham just won all kinds of awards for his most recent novel about growing up in an upstate NY commune in the 50s. This is an earlier one about a half ass detective (not really) with Tourette’s Syndrome (ergo- my opening) in Brooklyn. Funny, acerbic, titillating (that is not a Tourette’s thing) –a good story –very eccentric. You’re’ going to love Lionel Essrog and his crazy patch work of Tourette’s mumblings and shouts. I’m on the trail for the rest of Lethem’s books.