Jonathan Lethem

Motherless Brooklyn

Barry Hess

An unusual detective novel to say the least.

Summer Stanley

I truly wanted to like this. I loved the idea of it, it I had a hard time following the story. Additionally, I felt indifferent towards most of the characters and struggled to get to the end. I had little desire to know the outcome...

Daryl Houston

The thing this book does beautifully is to make you feel like you've inhabited a different sort of mind. It's sort of a detective story, but the real appeal is in how you experience the view from behind the eyes of a narrator whose internal (and external) mono/dialogue is so very different from your own. It's lyrical and lovely and playful and sometimes a little heartbreaking. Lethem here takes a familiar genre -- the detective story -- and enlivens it by tweaking the style and replacing (self-consciously) the verbal tics of that genre with the verbal tics of the unusual narrator. I enjoyed this one a lot. It's the third Lethem book I've read, and I figure he's three for three so far.

Juozas Salna

so little of detective work. most of it is exposition.

Phil James

Loved it. The voice is unique, funny and tragic, and now I'm hoping the author's other books are as enjoyable.

Motherless Brooklyn

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