Motherless brooklyn novel6/8/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() So let me break my own rules and stretch my time frame back before 2000 – all the way to 1999. But the fact of the matter is, I don’t love it even though I think I am supposed to. It is most likely to be the book that he will be known for. It is a melancholy and occasionally lovely piece of writing built around the name of Superman’s famous getaway, but it’s largely about Black and white relations in a Brooklyn that is mostly gone now. The first book of his that I read was the highly acclaimed, The Fortress of Solitude (2003). Part of it is undoubtedly my general resistance to the NYC novel. Of the current Brooklyn novelists, Jonathan Lethem will be near the top of almost anyone’s list. But honesty requires me to say that a number of those novels are quite good. Those of us who don’t live in the city find it hard to understand why it winds up being the subject of so many books. I freely admit that I find this obsession particularly tiresome. ![]() The New York City novel is virtually its own literary category, with the Brooklyn novel as a distinct subcategory. Motherless Brooklyn: A Novel By Jonathan Lethem ![]()
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