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For fans of Meg Wolitzer and Allegra Goodman, an intimate and provocative novel about three couples whose paths intersect in their New York City neighborhood, forcing them all to weigh the comfort of stability against the costs of change.Nina is a harried young mother who spends her evenings spying on the older couple across the street through her son’s Fisher-Price binoculars. She is drawn to their quiet contentment—reading on the couch, massaging each other’s feet—so unlike her own lonely, chaotic world of nursing and soothing and simply getting by. One night, through that same window, 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.
With enormous empathy and a keen observational eye, Tova Mirvis introduces a constellation of characters we all know: twenty-somethings unsure about commitments they haven’t yet made; thirty-somethings unsure about the ones they have; and sixty-somethings whose empty nest causes all sorts of doubt. Visible City invites us to examine those all-important forks in the road, and the conflict between desire and loyalty.
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—Joshua Henkin, author The World Without You"With artful tenderness and elegant compassion, Tova Mirvis strips her upscale Manhattanites down to their naked loneliness and longings. Her novel is as jewel-like as the stained glass window by La Farge that some of her characters believe may be hidden out of sight, walled-up inside an apartment building and waiting for the light of day for all its beauty to shine forth. Mirvis supplies the light, and the result is dazzling."
—Rebecca Goldstein "A fascinating maze of a novel, following the intersecting lives of two New York families as they come together and fall apart. Not only is the novel gorgeously written, it is enormously wise on the subjects of art, ambition, parenting, betrayal, and what it means to take care of the ones you love."
—Lauren Grodstein, author of A Friend of the Family"Here the hidden is made stunningly visible. One by one, facades are stripped away and the luminous interiors of strangers' lives begin to emerge: in the view-field of a sleepless woman's binoculars, in the flashlight beams of subterranean urban explorers, in the radiance filtering through a long-lost stained glass window, and, always, in the light of Tova Mirvis' kaleidoscopic, tender vision. Visible City will illuminate the hearts of both its characters and its readers."
—Rachel Kadish, author of Tolstoy Lied: A Love StoryPraise for the work of Tova Mirvis: “Full of verve and chutzpah.”
—New York Times Book Review “Poignant, funny, sophisticated.”
—Mademoiselle
Early praise for Visible City:"With artful tenderness and elegant compassion, Tova Mirvis strips her upscale Manhattanites down to their naked loneliness and longings. Her novel is as jewel-like as the stained glass window by La Farge that some of her characters believe may be hidden out of sight, walled-up inside an apartment building and waiting for the light of day for all its beauty to shine forth. Mirvis supplies the light, and the result is dazzling."
—Rebecca Goldstein "A fascinating maze of a novel, following the intersecting lives of two New York families as they come together and fall apart. Not only is the novel gorgeously written, it is enormously wise on the subjects of art, ambition, parenting, betrayal, and what it means to take care of the ones you love."
—Lauren Grodstein, author of A Friend of the Family"Here the hidden is made stunningly visible. One by one, facades are stripped away and the luminous interiors of strangers' lives begin to emerge: in the view-field of a sleepless woman's binoculars, in the flashlight beams of subterranean urban explorers, in the radiance filtering through a long-lost stained glass window, and, always, in the light of Tova Mirvis' kaleidoscopic, tender vision. Visible City will illuminate the hearts of both its characters and its readers."
—Rachel Kadish, author of Tolstoy Lied: A Love StoryPraise for the work of Tova Mirvis: “Full of verve and chutzpah.”
—New York Times Book Review “Poignant, funny, sophisticated.”
—Mademoiselle
Dalla seconda/terza di copertina:
"This dark, witty...comedy about deceptive appearances evolves into a moving examination of intimacy’s limitations." — Kirkus
"Mirvis focuses her artful prose on the inner lives of modern women and those they love as they face the possibilities of change." - Booklist
"Mirvis (The Ladies Auxiliary) writes an intimate story about different types of relationships, including those with complete strangers... In this story of chance and the temptation of change, Mirvis elicits the reader’s sympathy for her characters’ conflicting desires."
—Publishers Weekly
"Visible City reminds us how strangers become intimates and intimates grow estranged. Tova Mirvis writes with passion and unflinching honesty about the small grievances that accumulate until we no longer know the people we love."
—Joshua Henkin, author The World Without You
"With artful tenderness and elegant compassion, Tova Mirvis strips her upscale Manhattanites down to their naked loneliness and longings. Her novel is as jewel-like as the stained glass window by La Farge that some of her characters believe may be hidden out of sight, walled-up inside an apartment building and waiting for the light of day for all its beauty to shine forth. Mirvis supplies the light, and the result is dazzling."
—Rebecca Goldstein
"A fascinating maze of a novel, following the intersecting lives of two New York families as they come together and fall apart. Not only is the novel gorgeously written, it is enormously wise on the subjects of art, ambition, parenting, betrayal, and what it means to take care of the ones you love."
—Lauren Grodstein, author of A Friend of the Family
"Here the hidden is made stunningly visible. One by one, facades are stripped away and the luminous interiors of strangers' lives begin to emerge: in the view-field of a sleepless woman's binoculars, in the flashlight beams of subterranean urban explorers, in the radiance filtering through a long-lost stained glass window, and, always, in the light of Tova Mirvis' kaleidoscopic, tender vision. Visible City will illuminate the hearts of both its characters and its readers."
—Rachel Kadish, author of Tolstoy Lied: A Love Story
Praise for the work of Tova Mirvis:
“Full of verve and chutzpah.”
—New York Times Book Review
“Poignant, funny, sophisticated.”
—Mademoiselle
"In a glittering novel about fate, fantasy, and the anonymity of urban life, a lonely New York City woman uses her son’s toy binoculars to spy on couples whose intimacy she craves." - O, The Oprah Magazine
"Dark, witty...[This] comedy about deceptive appearances evolves into a moving examination of intimacy’s limitations." — Kirkus
"Mirvis focuses her artful prose on the inner lives of modern women and those they love as they face the possibilities of change." - Booklist
"Mirvis (The Ladies Auxiliary) writes an intimate story about different types of relationships, including those with complete strangers...In this story of chance and the temptation of change, Mirvis elicits the reader’s sympathy for her characters’ conflicting desires." —Publishers Weekly
"Such is Mirvis's finesse and insight that she leaves the reader completely sympathetic with each character's dilemmas...Visible City is a beautifully rendered novel that takes on art, parenting, betrayal and the nature of love.” —Shelf Awareness
"Charming...readers’ curiosity will be piqued." — BookPage
“With artful tenderness and elegant compassion, Tova Mirvis strips her upscale Manhattanites down to their naked loneliness and longings. Her novel is as jewel-like as a stained glass window. Mirvis supplies the light, and the result is dazzling.”—Rebecca Goldstein, MacArthur award-winning author of 36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction
“A fascinating maze of a novel, following the intersecting lives of two New York families as they come together and fall apart. Gorgeously written and enormously wise on the subjects of art, ambition, parenting, betrayal, and what it means to take care of the ones you love.” —Lauren Grodstein, author of A Friend of the Family
“Here the hidden is made stunningly visible. One by one, facades are stripped away and the luminous interiors of strangers' lives begin to emerge: in the view-field of a sleepless woman's binoculars, in the flashlight beams of subterranean urban explorers, in the radiance filtering through a long-lost stained glass window, and, always, in the light of Tova Mirvis's kaleidoscopic, tender vision. Visible City illuminates the hearts of both its characters and its readers.”—Rachel Kadish, author of Tolstoy Lied: A Love Story
“Visible City reminds us how strangers become intimates and intimates grow estranged. Mirvis writes with passion and unflinching honesty about the small grievances that accumulate until we no longer know the people we love.”—Joshua Henkin, author of The World Without You
Praise for the work of Tova Mirvis:
“Full of verve and chutzpah.”
—New York Times Book Review
“Poignant, funny, sophisticated.”
—Mademoiselle
"This dark, witty...comedy about deceptive appearances evolves into a moving examination of intimacy’s limitations." — Kirkus
"Mirvis focuses her artful prose on the inner lives of modern women and those they love as they face the possibilities of change." - Booklist
"Mirvis (The Ladies Auxiliary) writes an intimate story about different types of relationships, including those with complete strangers... In this story of chance and the temptation of change, Mirvis elicits the reader’s sympathy for her characters’ conflicting desires."
—Publishers Weekly
"Visible City reminds us how strangers become intimates and intimates grow estranged. Tova Mirvis writes with passion and unflinching honesty about the small grievances that accumulate until we no longer know the people we love."
—Joshua Henkin, author The World Without You
"With artful tenderness and elegant compassion, Tova Mirvis strips her upscale Manhattanites down to their naked loneliness and longings. Her novel is as jewel-like as the stained glass window by La Farge that some of her characters believe may be hidden out of sight, walled-up inside an apartment building and waiting for the light of day for all its beauty to shine forth. Mirvis supplies the light, and the result is dazzling."
—Rebecca Goldstein
"A fascinating maze of a novel, following the intersecting lives of two New York families as they come together and fall apart. Not only is the novel gorgeously written, it is enormously wise on the subjects of art, ambition, parenting, betrayal, and what it means to take care of the ones you love."
—Lauren Grodstein, author of A Friend of the Family
"Here the hidden is made stunningly visible. One by one, facades are stripped away and the luminous interiors of strangers' lives begin to emerge: in the view-field of a sleepless woman's binoculars, in the flashlight beams of subterranean urban explorers, in the radiance filtering through a long-lost stained glass window, and, always, in the light of Tova Mirvis' kaleidoscopic, tender vision. Visible City will illuminate the hearts of both its characters and its readers."
—Rachel Kadish, author of Tolstoy Lied: A Love Story
Praise for the work of Tova Mirvis:
“Full of verve and chutzpah.”
—New York Times Book Review
“Poignant, funny, sophisticated.”
—Mademoiselle
"Charming...readers’ curiosity will be piqued." — BookPage
"This dark, witty...comedy about deceptive appearances evolves into a moving examination of intimacy’s limitations." — Kirkus
"Mirvis focuses her artful prose on the inner lives of modern women and those they love as they face the possibilities of change." - Booklist
"Mirvis (The Ladies Auxiliary) writes an intimate story about different types of relationships, including those with complete strangers... In this story of chance and the temptation of change, Mirvis elicits the reader’s sympathy for her characters’ conflicting desires."
—Publishers Weekly
"Visible City reminds us how strangers become intimates and intimates grow estranged. Tova Mirvis writes with passion and unflinching honesty about the small grievances that accumulate until we no longer know the people we love."
—Joshua Henkin, author The World Without You
"With artful tenderness and elegant compassion, Tova Mirvis strips her upscale Manhattanites down to their naked loneliness and longings. Her novel is as jewel-like as the stained glass window by La Farge that some of her characters believe may be hidden out of sight, walled-up inside an apartment building and waiting for the light of day for all its beauty to shine forth. Mirvis supplies the light, and the result is dazzling."
—Rebecca Goldstein
"A fascinating maze of a novel, following the intersecting lives of two New York families as they come together and fall apart. Not only is the novel gorgeously written, it is enormously wise on the subjects of art, ambition, parenting, betrayal, and what it means to take care of the ones you love."
—Lauren Grodstein, author of A Friend of the Family
"Here the hidden is made stunningly visible. One by one, facades are stripped away and the luminous interiors of strangers' lives begin to emerge: in the view-field of a sleepless woman's binoculars, in the flashlight beams of subterranean urban explorers, in the radiance filtering through a long-lost stained glass window, and, always, in the light of Tova Mirvis' kaleidoscopic, tender vision. Visible City will illuminate the hearts of both its characters and its readers."
—Rachel Kadish, author of Tolstoy Lied: A Love Story
Praise for the work of Tova Mirvis:
“Full of verve and chutzpah.”
—New York Times Book Review
“Poignant, funny, sophisticated.”
—Mademoiselle
Early praise for Visible City:
—Joshua Henkin, author The World Without You"With artful tenderness and elegant compassion, Tova Mirvis strips her upscale Manhattanites down to their naked loneliness and longings. Her novel is as jewel-like as the stained glass window by La Farge that some of her characters believe may be hidden out of sight, walled-up inside an apartment building and waiting for the light of day for all its beauty to shine forth. Mirvis supplies the light, and the result is dazzling."
—Rebecca Goldstein "A fascinating maze of a novel, following the intersecting lives of two New York families as they come together and fall apart. Not only is the novel gorgeously written, it is enormously wise on the subjects of art, ambition, parenting, betrayal, and what it means to take care of the ones you love."
—Lauren Grodstein, author of A Friend of the Family"Here the hidden is made stunningly visible. One by one, facades are stripped away and the luminous interiors of strangers' lives begin to emerge: in the view-field of a sleepless woman's binoculars, in the flashlight beams of subterranean urban explorers, in the radiance filtering through a long-lost stained glass window, and, always, in the light of Tova Mirvis' kaleidoscopic, tender vision. Visible City will illuminate the hearts of both its characters and its readers."
—Rachel Kadish, author of Tolstoy Lied: A Love StoryPraise for the work of Tova Mirvis: “Full of verve and chutzpah.”
—New York Times Book Review “Poignant, funny, sophisticated.”
—Mademoiselle
Early praise for Visible City:"With artful tenderness and elegant compassion, Tova Mirvis strips her upscale Manhattanites down to their naked loneliness and longings. Her novel is as jewel-like as the stained glass window by La Farge that some of her characters believe may be hidden out of sight, walled-up inside an apartment building and waiting for the light of day for all its beauty to shine forth. Mirvis supplies the light, and the result is dazzling."
—Rebecca Goldstein "A fascinating maze of a novel, following the intersecting lives of two New York families as they come together and fall apart. Not only is the novel gorgeously written, it is enormously wise on the subjects of art, ambition, parenting, betrayal, and what it means to take care of the ones you love."
—Lauren Grodstein, author of A Friend of the Family"Here the hidden is made stunningly visible. One by one, facades are stripped away and the luminous interiors of strangers' lives begin to emerge: in the view-field of a sleepless woman's binoculars, in the flashlight beams of subterranean urban explorers, in the radiance filtering through a long-lost stained glass window, and, always, in the light of Tova Mirvis' kaleidoscopic, tender vision. Visible City will illuminate the hearts of both its characters and its readers."
—Rachel Kadish, author of Tolstoy Lied: A Love StoryPraise for the work of Tova Mirvis: “Full of verve and chutzpah.”
—New York Times Book Review “Poignant, funny, sophisticated.”
—Mademoiselle
"Mirvis focuses her artful prose on the inner lives of modern women and those they love as they face the possibilities of change." - Booklist
"Mirvis (The Ladies Auxiliary) writes an intimate story about different types of relationships, including those with complete strangers... In this story of chance and the temptation of change, Mirvis elicits the reader’s sympathy for her characters’ conflicting desires."
—Publishers Weekly
"Visible City reminds us how strangers become intimates and intimates grow estranged. Tova Mirvis writes with passion and unflinching honesty about the small grievances that accumulate until we no longer know the people we love."
—Joshua Henkin, author The World Without You
"With artful tenderness and elegant compassion, Tova Mirvis strips her upscale Manhattanites down to their naked loneliness and longings. Her novel is as jewel-like as the stained glass window by La Farge that some of her characters believe may be hidden out of sight, walled-up inside an apartment building and waiting for the light of day for all its beauty to shine forth. Mirvis supplies the light, and the result is dazzling."
—Rebecca Goldstein
"A fascinating maze of a novel, following the intersecting lives of two New York families as they come together and fall apart. Not only is the novel gorgeously written, it is enormously wise on the subjects of art, ambition, parenting, betrayal, and what it means to take care of the ones you love."
—Lau...
"A fascinating maze of a novel, following the intersecting lives of two New York families as they come together and fall apart. Gorgeously written and enormously wise on the subjects of art, ambition, parenting, betrayal, and what it means to take care of the ones you love."
—Lauren Grodstein, author of A Friend of the Family
Nina spends her evenings spying on the older couple across the street through her young son's Fischer Price binoculars. She is drawn to their quiet contentment—reading on the couch, massaging each other's feet—so unlike her own lonely, chaotic world of tending and soothing her children. One night, through that same window, she spies a young couple in the throes of passion. Who are these young people, and what happened to her symbol of domestic happiness?
In the coming weeks, Nina encounters both the older couple and the young lovers on the streets of her neighborhood, and as anonymity gives way to different—and sometimes dangerous—forms of intimacy, they all begin to question their own paths. With enormous empathy and a keen observational eye, Mirvis introduces a constellation of characters we all know: twenty-somethings unsure about commitments they haven’t yet made; thirty-somethings unsure about the ones they have; and sixty-somethings whose empty nest summons regret and doubt.
From its lavish ghost subway stations to its hidden stained glass windows, Visible City conjures a New York teeming with buried treasures, casualties of a metropolis always in flux; not unlike its inhabitants, who must confront their own hidden desires and, eventually, weigh the comforts of stability against the urge for change.
—Lauren Grodstein, author of A Friend of the Family
Nina spends her evenings spying on the older couple across the street through her young son's Fischer Price binoculars. She is drawn to their quiet contentment—reading on the couch, massaging each other's feet—so unlike her own lonely, chaotic world of tending and soothing her children. One night, through that same window, she spies a young couple in the throes of passion. Who are these young people, and what happened to her symbol of domestic happiness?
In the coming weeks, Nina encounters both the older couple and the young lovers on the streets of her neighborhood, and as anonymity gives way to different—and sometimes dangerous—forms of intimacy, they all begin to question their own paths. With enormous empathy and a keen observational eye, Mirvis introduces a constellation of characters we all know: twenty-somethings unsure about commitments they haven’t yet made; thirty-somethings unsure about the ones they have; and sixty-somethings whose empty nest summons regret and doubt.
From its lavish ghost subway stations to its hidden stained glass windows, Visible City conjures a New York teeming with buried treasures, casualties of a metropolis always in flux; not unlike its inhabitants, who must confront their own hidden desires and, eventually, weigh the comforts of stability against the urge for change.
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