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The Brooklyn Follies
by Paul Auster
This is an enjoyable, light-hearted novel set in the author’s home territory of Brooklyn, New York. From an inauspicious start for the narrator, Nathan, where he crawls back to his native Brooklyn after a diagnosis of cancer and a bitter divorce, things only get better as he meets up with his nephew and the eccentric Harry Brightman aka Dunkell. Eventually he reconciles with his estranged daughter, rescues his niece from her cult-obsessed husband and enjoys a comfortable affair. There is some intrigue, fraud and sudden death as well as a near death experience for Nathan himself, but all turns out well for the main characters in the end.