Motherless Brooklyn

by Jonathan Lethem · first published 1999

Motherless Brooklyn is a novel by Jonathan Lethem that was first published in 1999. Told in first person, the story follows Lionel Essrog, a private investigator who has Tourette's, a disorder marked by involuntary tics. Essrog works for Frank Minna, a small-time owner of a "seedy and makeshift" detective agency disguised as a transportation company. Together, Essrog and three other characters who are all orphans from Brooklyn—Tony, Danny, and Gilbert—call themselves "the Minna Men".

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Genre:

Detective fiction

Original language:

English

Reader rating:

★ 3.9 / 5 (9 on Open Library)

Year page:

1999