Motherless Brooklyn Study Guide consists of approx. 60 pages of summaries and analysis on Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem. Browse the literature study guide below:
Lionel Essrog and Gilbert Coney are staking out 109 East Eighty-Fourth Street, a town house between giant apartment buildings, while eating White Castle hamburgers. Their boss, Frank Minna has given them the assignment without explanation. Lionel has Tourette's syndrome, which in his case includes such compulsive "tic" behaviors as repeating particular sounds and gestures, rhyming, twisting and echoing words and shouting obscenities. Coney, like the other men who work for Minna, likes doing stakeouts with Lionel because his compulsions force him to check the stakeout every thirty seconds, allowing Coney to concentrate on eating. Lionel notes a dark-haired woman entering 109, which has the sign "Yorkville Zendo" on the door. Lionel makes a note of the time, even though he's not sure that's part of the assignment. (read more)
