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Motherless Brooklyn

Motherless Brooklyn
  • Author(s): Jonathan Lethem
  • Location(s): Brooklyn
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Lionel Essrog is Brooklyn’s very own self-appointed Human Freakshow, an orphan whose Tourettic impulses drive him to bark, count, and rip apart our language in startling and original ways. Together with three veterans of the St. Vincent’s Home for...

Outerborough Blues: A Brooklyn Mystery

Outerborough Blues: A Brooklyn Mystery
  • Author(s): Andrew Cotto
  • Location(s): Brooklyn, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Outerborough Blues is the story of a drifter, Caesar Stiles, immersed in a mystery that takes him to the hidden corners of a rapidly changing Brooklyn. The gritty search for a missing art student takes on a mythological sweep,...

Snow in August

Snow in August
  • Author(s): Pete Hamill
  • Location(s): Brooklyn
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940s

In 1940s Brooklyn, friendship between an 11-year-old Irish Catholic boy and an elderly Jewish rabbi might seem as unlikely as, well, snow in August. But the relationship between young Michael Devlin and Rabbi Judah Hirsch is only one of...

Someone

Someone
  • Author(s): Alice McDermott
  • Location(s): Brooklyn
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1920s

Someone begins on the stoop of a Brooklyn apartment building where Marie is waiting for her father to come home from work. It is the 1920s and in her Irish-American enclave the stories of her neighbours unfold before her...

Sophie’s Choice

Sophie’s Choice
  • Author(s): William Styron
  • Location(s): Auschwitz/Birkenau, Brooklyn
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Early/Mid 20th Century

The novel opens with Stingo, a young southerner, journeying north in 1947 to become a writer. It leads us into his intellectual and emotional entanglement with his neighbors in a Brooklyn rooming house: Nathan, a tortured, brilliant Jew, and...

Sutton

Sutton
  • Author(s): J R Moehringer
  • Location(s): Brooklyn, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Historical
  • Era(s): Early and late 20th Century

One of the most notorious criminals in American history is brought blazing back to life by a master storyteller. Willie Sutton was born in the squalid Irish slums of Brooklyn, in the first year of the twentieth century, and...

The Astral

The Astral
  • Author(s): Kate Christensen
  • Location(s): Brooklyn
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

In the gentrifying neighborhood of Greenpoint, Brooklyn, rests a huge rose-colored apartment building called The Astral. For decades it was the happy home of the poet Harry Quirk, his wife, Luz, and their two children: Karina, now a fervent...

The Chosen

The Chosen
  • Author(s): Chaim Potok
  • Location(s): Brooklyn
  • Genre(s): Historical, Young Adult
  • Era(s): 1940s

In 1940s Brooklyn, New York, an accident throws Reuven Malther and Danny Saunders together. Despite their differences (Reuven is a Modern Orthodox Jew with an intellectual, Zionist father: Danny is the brilliant son and rightful heir to a Hasidic...

The Electric Michelangelo

The Electric Michelangelo
  • Author(s): Sarah Hall
  • Location(s): Brooklyn, Lancashire, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

On the windswept front of Morecambe Bay, Cy Parks spends his childhood years first in a guest house for consumptives run by his mother and then as apprentice to alcoholic tattoo-artist Eliot Riley. Thirsty for new experiences, he departs...

The Fortress of Solitude

The Fortress of Solitude
  • Author(s): Jonathan Lethem
  • Location(s): Brooklyn
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Second half of the 20th Century

Dean Street, Brooklyn. When Abraham and Rachel Ebdus arrive there in the early 1970s, they are among the first whites to venture into a mainly black neighborhood that is just beginning to be called Boerum Hill.

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