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Motherless Brooklyn

(1999)
A novel by

 
 
Awards
2000 CWA Gold Dagger
1999 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction

Lionel Essrog, a.k.a. the Human Freakshow, is a victim of Tourette's syndrome (an uncontrollable urge to shout out nonsense, touch every surface in reach and stroke people. Local tough guy hires Lionel and other boys and grooms them to become the Minna Men, a detective-agency-cum-limo service.


Genre: Mystery

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