

Motherless Brooklyn
Author: Jonathan Lethem
Narrator: Geoffrey Cantor
Unabridged: 10 hr 9 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperAudio
Published: 01/21/2014
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Crime, Suspense & Thriller
Author: Jonathan Lethem
Narrator: Geoffrey Cantor
Unabridged: 10 hr 9 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperAudio
Published: 01/21/2014
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Crime, Suspense & Thriller
Jonathan Lethem is the bestselling author of thirteen novels, including Brooklyn Crime Novel, The Feral Detective, and Motherless Brooklyn, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. His five story collections include Men and Cartoons and Lucky Alan, and his short fiction has appeared in the New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, and the Paris Review, among other publications, garnering a Pushcart Prize, a World Fantasy Award, and inclusion in The Best American Short Stories. The recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship, he lives in Los Angeles and Maine.
I used to have a customer with Tourette’s. Back when I was a teenage supermarket teller, a million and a half years ago, she used to come through my line routinely. At the time, I didn’t reflect much on her condition other than that I assumed it must be tough for her occasionally, but how tough it r......more
There are more laugh out loud moments in this novel than in anything I’ve read for ages. Lionel, the orphaned aspiring detective with Tourettes is an adorable character. (Lethem helps us understand that we all have Tourettes to some extent: "Insomnia is a variant of Tourette's--the waking brain race......more