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Brooklyn Crime Novel by Jonathan Lethe
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Totally amazing trip back in time to my childhood back in Brooklyn. A breathtaking account of what Brooklyn was like pre, post, and during gentrification.
This was a fun twist on following up with Dorothy after Oz. It had some psychological twists and turns, nothing fantastical, just how she was considered crazy and the townsfolk held their high moral principles and secrets. It tied up nicely at the end. I liked it! Good story!
A Hollywood director making her first big picture attempts to film a climatic action scene on a Styrofoam iceberg in the New Mexico desert before they sun goes down. But trouble comes from her ex turned producer, the star actress recovering from addiction, and a climate advisor butting in to correct the script.