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Visible City (2014)

von Tova Mirvis

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While spying on her neighbors with her son's toy binoculars, Nina becomes entranced with the subjects of her secret vigils until she encounters them in the real world and must decide whether to let them into her life or not.
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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. ( )
  Gittel | Jan 7, 2020 |
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. ( )
  micahmom2002 | Jan 25, 2016 |
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. ( )
  micahmom2002 | Jan 25, 2016 |
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. ( )
  froxgirl | Jun 1, 2014 |
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  laylahz | May 22, 2014 |
Nina, a bored, unhappy young wife on the Upper West Side of New York City, entertains herself at night by spying on neighbors, whose lit-up apartment windows are like "the rows of televisions in an electronic store." While her two small children are asleep—and her husband Jeremy, a real-estate lawyer, works late—she trains her son's Fisher Price binoculars on a couple in their late 50s living in the ornate pre-war building across the street. Reading side by side on the sofa in the evenings, they present a picture of harmonious companionship. She envies their quiet contentment, so different from the loneliness of her own life.
 
The facade of a classic prewar New York City apartment building — the opening image of Tova Mirvis’s third novel, “Visible City” — presents a plain-spoken metaphor for human acquaintance. Meeting a stranger, you may walk past without interest or, intrigued by a glimpse of color or movement, strive to see more and deeper, beyond the mannerly surface. Unlike those riskier “rear window” views, streetfront views shed light primarily on the most predictable of daytime activities. Peer long enough, however, and you might witness something more private.
hinzugefügt von smasler | bearbeitenThe New York Times, Julia Glass (Apr 4, 2014)
 
Anyone who has spent time in Manhattan or watched Hitchcock’s Rear Window will recognize the voyeuristic pleasure that jump-starts Mirvis’ (The Outside World, 2004, etc.) third novel, as a bored young mother stands at her apartment window watching across-the-street neighbors in their living room, unaware that the two families’ lives will soon intertwine.

While her lawyer husband, Jeremy, works all hours at his high-pressure firm arranging large real estate development deals, lawyer-turned–stay-at-home-mom Nina is going a little nuts. Trapped in her Upper West Side apartment with 3-year-old Max and baby Lily, Nina spends lonely nights watching a couple reading together in what looks like companionable silence in the building across from hers.
hinzugefügt von smasler | bearbeitenKirkus Reivews (Jan 23, 2014)
 
Tova Mirvis easily orchestrates the introductions and the growing familiarity. What was visible through the windows at night is in reality quite different on the street and face-to-face. There is pleasure in the newness of friendship. It eases the pain of anger, deep loneliness, and longing for change. Contemporary personal and professional issues are presented but not judged. Be a stay at home mom or continue on a career path. Leave an Orthodox background and live a secular lifestyle. Confront life-long emotional parent /child expectations. Evaluate relationships grown stale and meaningless. Each character at once suffers and stretches and a journey begins.
 
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