From the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author ofMotherless Brooklyn, comes the vividly told story ofDylan Ebdus growing up white & motherless in downtown Brooklyn in the 1970s. In a neighborhood where the entertainments include muggings along with games of stoopball, Dylan has one friend, a black teenager, also motherless, named Mingus Rude.Through the knitting and unraveling of the boys' friendship, Lethem creates an overwhelmingly rich & emotionally gripping canvas of race & class, superheros, gentrification, funk, hip-hop, graffiti tagging, loyalty, & memory."A tour de force.... Belongs to a venerable New York literary tradition that stretches back through Go Tell It on the Mountain, A Walker in the City, & Call it Sleep." -The New York Times Magazine"One of the richest, messiest, most ambitious, most interesting novels of the year.... Lethem grabs and captures 1970s New York City, & he brings it to a story worth telling." -Time