annie's review
Motherless Brooklyn
by Jonathan Lethem
annie's review
Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
annie's review
rating:
You have a good, solid, Law and Order type plot that's just tidy and well-done, and within it these characters and ideas have a lot of room to express themselves, which they all do in their own, totally believable, human ways. A lot of the other books he wrote try to do this, but some of them get stuck in the conceit of the novel and never get out - like in Girl in Landscape. Other times the people are real but it's despite the plot, or the plot is about them as ideas and not their individual relationships with historicity - like in Fortress of Solitude. Fortress of Solitude is infinitely better than Girl in Landscape or As She Climbed Across the Table, but Motherless Brooklyn is something else again - it's worth having a couple copies around in case somebody picks one up when at your house and then can't resist the temptation to permanently borrow it.
