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    Visible City: A Novel
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    Visible City: A Novel

    Written by Tova Mirvis

    Narrated by Tavia Gilbert

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Nina is a harried young mother who spends her evenings spying on the older couple across the street through her son’s binoculars. She is drawn to their quiet contentment - so unlike her own lonely, chaotic world of nursing.

    One night, she spies a young couple in the throes of passion. Who are these people, and what happened to her symbol of domestic bliss? In the coming weeks, Nina encounters the older couple, Leon and Claudia, their daughter Emma and her fiancé, and many others on the streets of her Upper West Side neighborhood, eroding the safe distance of her secret vigils.

    Soon anonymity gives way to different - and sometimes dangerous - forms of intimacy, and Nina and her neighbors each begin to question their own paths.

    ©2014 Tova Mirvis (P)2014 Dreamscape Media, LLC

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDreamscape Media Audio
    Release dateMar 18, 2014
    ISBN9781629233420
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    Visible City: A Novel
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    Tova Mirvis

    Tova Mirvis is the author of The Outside World and The Ladies Auxiliary, which was a national bestseller. Her essays have appeared in various anthologies and newspapers including The New York Times, Good Housekeeping, and Poets and Writers, and her fiction has been broadcast on National Public Radio. She has been a Visiting Scholar at The Brandeis Women's Studies Research Center and is a recipient of a Massachusetts Cultural Council Fiction Fellowship.

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    • 5/5
      Multilayered plot and characters I'd like to meet. This novel was an accurate portrait of New York City, and a realistic if exaggerated depiction of motherhood and marriage. Would make a great movie.
    • 2/5
      The story and characters were interesting enough but I didnt care for the ending. I fe,t it was too abrupt. A mother of 2 in NYC whose husband is working everyday until the wee hours of the morning begins watching neighbors through their windows in her boredom. When she meets them she realizes both how their lives intersect but also that things are not always what they appear.
    • 4/5
      If you've ever lived in a city on a street where you can see your neighbors through their windows (curtains being quite out of fashion these days) and wondered: whose life is better, mine or theirs - then wonder no more. Tova Mirvis tells it all to you in this amusing novel. Every Upper West Side family on this street is facing the invasion of the all-glass high rises - the moms whose kids are awoken by construction noise, the lawyer dad whose firm represents the builders, the mentally ill old lady who haunts the neighborhood, the scholar who thinks there might be artistic treasure hidden in an old Vanderbilt mansion about to be torn down. Then there's the Mommy Wars inside the bakery: inside or outside voices? This novel reminded me of The New Yorkers by Catherine Schine, another delightful study of neighbors at love and war. A good summer read, and unlike many of the genre, this isn't chick lit: the men are fully realized, not just shadowy background figures. Very enjoyable.
    • 3/5
      I love the insight and language of Tova Mirvis' Visible City. This is largely a book about what it means to be a parent and Mirvis expertly tackles the subject from many angles. The loyalty of parents to children, children to parents, is wonderfully drawn at many different junctures of life. Though some of the younger parents may almost seem like caricatures of the modern parent (though I've come across some of their ilk who weren't far from these Purell-guzzling mothers), they're emblazoned with a clear question of 'when is it too much?'” I love the style and the language; it easily brings to mind the work of Meg Wolitzer.For me, however, the story just wasn't there. There's this breed of novel I've seen a few times in the last several years where the story is brushed aside to make room for a good idea that is barely developed, supported entirely by its wonderful sentences. The one that comes immediately to mind is Hannah Pittard's The Fates Will Find Their Way. Fortunately for Pittard, the language was so perfect I was immediately a fan, though I hope for more substance next time. Mirvis caught my attention with Visible City. I like the style and the sense of setting. I'd be willing to give her work another go, but only if I had a hope that either the characterization or story were going to be strong enough to support the weight of the words. Without such a base, the whole structure sort of topples over.