Motherless Brooklyn
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| Author | Jonathan Lethem |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Detective novel |
| Publisher | Doubleday |
| Publication date | 1999 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-385-49183-2 |
Motherless Brooklyn is a Jonathan Lethem novel published in 1999. It is ostensibly a detective story set in Brooklyn. The novel won the 1999 National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction and the 2000 Gold Dagger award for crime fiction. Lethem's protagonist has Tourette syndrome, a disorder marked by involuntary tics.
In 2005 it was announced that Edward Norton would direct, adapt, and star in a film adaptation, set in the 1950s. The movie will be released in 2009.
Motherless Brooklyn inspired Deb Talan to write Tell Your Story Walking. This song appears on the 2002 album Songs Inspired by Literature (Chapter One), a benefit of the organization Artists for Literacy. Tell Your Story Walking was the winner of Artists for Literacy’s 2002 songwriting contest.
