While trying to prioritize my lengthy list of new books coming out in 2014, I decided to try a new feature on my blog. I'm hoping this idea will hopefully serve a few purposes: keep me focused on books I'd like to read, give a little PR to the authors (especially new authors) who worked so hard getting published, and to let other readers know about books that will be hitting the book stores soon (within the next 90 days).
Here's my "Coming Soon to a Book Store Near You" pick for today --
Visible City; Tova Mirvis
Houghton, Mifflin Harcourt - March 18th, 2014
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 fiancĂ©, 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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Does this sound like a book you might add to your wish list?
It does sound intriguing and an interesting way into a novel.
ReplyDeleteI am interested. I will keep my eyes open for it.
ReplyDeleteThis does sound good!
ReplyDeleteThis one sounds excellent! I might have to keep it in mind to read before I go to New York again.
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