Here’s a great book where the plot kind of got in the way. The protagonist was interesting, the premise was interesting, but the mystery-crime-double-cross storyline wasn’t what drove me through it. The wordplay around the main character’s Tourette’s Syndrome was pretty compelling.

I like Lethem, I really do. I am just not a New York native so some of his deep reflections about Brooklyn and the way the city feels overall don’t reach me.

***1/2 (of 5)