From the bestselling and award-winning author of The Fortress of Solitude and Motherless Brooklyn comes a sweeping story of community, crime, and gentrification, tracing over fifty years of life in one Brooklyn neighborhood.
Jonathan Lethem, one of America\'s greatest storytellers ( Washington Post ), has crafted an epic interrogation of how we fashion stories to contain the uncontainable: our remorse at the world we\'ve made..
Written with kaleidoscopic verve and delirious wit, Brooklyn Crime Novel is a breathtaking tour de force by a writer at the top of his powers.
None who lived through it are ever permitted to forget.
A street may seem to crack open and reveal what lies behind its glimmering facade.
The voices of the past may seem to rise and gather as if in harmony, then make war with one another.
But in memory\'s prism, criminals and victims may seem to trade places.
The rules appear obvious at first.
And in the wings hide the other players: parents; cops; renovators; landlords; those who write the headlines, the histories, and laws; those who award this neighborhood its name.
For these children, Black, brown, and white, the street is a stage in shadow.
The promise of violence lies everywhere, a currency itself.
Money is exchanged, belongings surrendered, power asserted. -- Colum McCann, author of Apeirogon and Let the Great World Spin On the streets of 1970s Brooklyn, a daily ritual goes down: the dance.
Every city deserves a book like this.
And mystery joins the whole together: is the Crime \'time\'? Or the almighty dollar? I got a great laugh from it too.
Protest novel.
History.
Social commentary.
A love story.
A blistering book.
From the bestselling and award-winning author of The Fortress of Solitude and Motherless Brooklyn comes a sweeping story of community, crime, and gentrification, tracing over fifty years of life in one Brooklyn neighborhood
