BOOK 151: MOTHERLESS BROOKLYN:
JONATHAN LETHEM
This book is a detective story set in
Brooklyn and published in 1999. Lethem's protagonist, Lionel Essrog, has Tourette syndrome, a
disorder marked by involuntary tics.
Essrog works, along with Tony, Danny and Gilbert, who call themselves the Minna
Men, for Frank Minna—a small-time neighborhood owner of a "seedy and
makeshift" detective agency—who is stabbed to death.
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