![]() ![]() Lethem is probably one of my favorite contemporary writers. At the same time, he mines the funny – the tics Lionel gets obsessed with EAT ME BAILEY are, well, funny. He could’ve made this a stupid joke, but he works hard to get underneath Lionel’s skin, and show us the man behind the tics. ![]() Lionel Essrog.) And with that set up, you really have to give Lethem serious credit for that. So, was it worth the wait? Without a doubt, yes. And now – it’s FINALLY available to download. It won the National Book Critics Award, and ever since I started listening to audiobooks, it was one I’d been looking forward to hearing. Motherless Brooklyn is a novel I’d read probably a decade ago. It’s mystery novel, but the mystery really takes the backseat to Lionel, a hilarious heartbreak of a protagonist, and one of the most intriguing characters I’ve come across: Lionel Essrog. ![]() This is the story of a private detective who has Tourette’s syndrome who is obsessed with trying to figure out who killed his boss. ![]()
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