Visible City

Name: Visible City
Brand: Dreamscape Media
Availability: InStock
Author: Tova Mirvis
ISBN: 9781629233420

Author: Tova Mirvis

Narrator: Tavia Gilbert

Unabridged: 7 hr 50 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Published: 03/18/2014

Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction

Synopsis

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 her fiance, 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.

About Tova Mirvis

Tova Mirvis is the author of the memoir The Book of Separation as well as four novels, We Would Never, Visible City, The Outside World, and The Ladies Auxiliary, which was a national bestseller. Her essays have appeared in various newspapers including The New York Times Book Review, The Boston Globe Magazine, and Poets and Writers, and her fiction has been broadcast on NPR. She lives in Newton, Massachusetts, with her family. You can connect with her on her website, TovaMirvis.com.

Reviews

Goodreads review by switterbug (Betsey)

Visible city pertains to an apartment building in NYC, where inhabitants peer from their windows to their neighbors' windows, and project their dreams and desires onto their neighbor's lives. Of course, what they see is the surface of each other, the conspicuous exterior. The running motif concerns......more

Goodreads review by Kasa

Once again, I give a higher rating than usual to a book because it's set in the city I love. The urban geometry of people living in cubes on top of one another provides limitless opportunity to create linked stories, create characters who only share a closeness in geography. Last year there was a si......more

Goodreads review by Deborah

One of the characters comments that someone looking at a marriage from the outside can never really know what truly goes on between man and wife. Another wonders who has had the desire to just run from everything as fast and as far as you can. Looking out her window at her neighbors, Nina imagines t......more