"An author comes up with a new (and brilliant) twist for the detective novel: A narrator with Tourette's syndrome."

Short plot synopsis of this 1999 National Book Critics Circle Award nominee (and soon-to-be feature film starring Edward Norton).

Bold Type streaming audio clip of Lethem reading the opening passage of this extraordinary novel.

Bold Type's print excerpt from the novel.

Frederick Zackel's review for January magazine.

Lethem joins in on an article re: Tourette's syndrome (the disorder attributed to his "Motherless Brooklyn" main character and narrator, Lionel Essrog).

USA Today review by Ann Prichard.

Review by Adam Mazmanian

Sleuth Sayer by Luc Sante.

"By creating a detective with Tourette's syndrome, Jonathan Lethem addresses the mystery of language."