TOVA MIRVIS is the author of The Outside World and The Ladies Auxiliary, a national bestseller. The recipient of a Massachusetts Cultural Council Fiction Fellowship, her work has been broadcast on National Public Radio. She lives in Newton, Massachusetts, with her three children.
"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."
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