The Fortress of SolitudeBy: Jonathan Lethem Series: Vintage Contemporaries A New York Times Book Review EDITORS' CHOICE. From the National Book Critics Circle Award winning author of Motherless Brooklyn, comes the vividly told story of Dylan Ebdus growing up white and 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