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Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem Book cover type:Paperback and religious ecstasy in aNATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER A complusively readable riff on the classic detective novel from Americas most inventive novelist. A half satirical cross between a literary novel and a hard boiled crime story narrated by an amateur detective with Tourettes syndrome. The dialogue crackles with caustic hilarity. Unexpectedly moving. The Boston Globe Brooklyns very own self appointed Human Freakshow, Lionel Essrog is an orphan whose Tourettic