by JonathanLethem (Author)
Lethem's heroine is 14-year-old Pella Marsh, whose mother dies just as her family flees a post-apocalyptic Brooklyn for the frontier of a recently discovered planet. Attracted to the virile, dangerous leader of the colony, Pella embarks on a course of discovery that will have tragic and irrevocable consequences.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: 18 Feb 2002
ISBN 10: 0571205941
ISBN 13: 9780571205943
Book Overview: Jonathan Lethem's Motherless Brooklyn was the winner of the Macallan Gold Dagger Award for Crime Fiction 2000.