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Title: A page-turner by the master of Brooklyn.
Review: You might think a writer could not construct a brilliantly-worded, completely engaging detective story centering around a protagonist with Tourette syndrome. You'd be wrong. Lethem is a brilliant author who writes books you just can't set down once you have been lucky (or informed) enough to pick one up. Lethem writes about Brooklyn as Dennis Lehane (e.g.Gone, Baby, Gone (Harper Fiction)) writes about Boston---with the authority of experience. In regard to what Lethem says he loves most of books are "the mysterious movements of characters and situations and the emotions that accompany those movements." THAT is why you read Lethem. Because his writing is true to his passion and it makes his books incredibly entertaining and intriguing.
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