A review by jeffrossbooks
Brooklyn Crime Novel by Jonathan Lethem

4.0

What a fascinating book. Lethem is one of the great innovators in modern American fiction. This novel is a pastiche of a neighborhood over time. We dip in and out of the lives of different characters. The crimes, both small and large, are a part of their lives. There is no one narrator we follow, other than the authorial voice. Yet by the end of the book you feel as though you've lived through these events, been there during all of the times.