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Mice 1961 | Stacey Levine

2 posts | 2 read | 4 to read

�Stacey Levine�s fiction is unlike anything else. Peculiar, vivid, preternaturally alert to the strangeness of the human condition, Mice 1961 is terrific.��Kelly Link Stacey Levine's new novel recounts a pivotal day in the fraught relationship of two orphaned sisters through the eyes of their obsessively observant housekeeper. Will Jody be able to cope if her younger sibling Mice, subject to constant harassment in their community for her unusual appearance and habits, leaves home? How will their all-watching companion convey her fierce attachment to them both? When they cross paths with an unsettling stranger at a neighborhood party, the three women are driven toward momentous changes. Set in southern Florida at the peak of Cold War hysteria, Mice 1961 is a powerful meditation on belonging and separateness, conformity and otherness.

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sarahbarnes

Mice 1961 | Stacey Levine

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This book was wild in the best way. The premise - a “spring party” in 1960s Miami - provides the setting for an absurd relationship between sisters and their sort of housekeeper to play out. This happens alongside random conversations at the party. Levine‘s ability to have come up with some of the dialogue in these conversations - I was laughing out loud at the sheer absurdity of it.

sarahbarnes There are some serious undertones in the plot as well, but mostly I was just amazed by the writing of the party scenes. 😂 2w

Reggie Sounds like fun. Stacked. 2w

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Mattsbookaday

Mice 1961 | Stacey Levine

so-so

Mice 1961, by Stacey Levine (2024)
⭐️⭐️⭐️💫

Premise: A mysterious narrator looks on as orphaned half sisters find themselves at crossed purposes during a neighbourhood potluck.

Review: This was a surprise finalist for the Pulitzer Prize this year so I was very curious to pick it up. This is an absolute masterclass in setting and atmosphere, and unique in its approach to storytelling. Cont.

Mattsbookaday Most of the book is told in snippets of overheard conversations, meaning that it jumps wildly from character to character. This skiddish narration effectively mirrors the mental state of the main characters. But it also makes the book very frustrating to read. There‘s also very little plot and so it‘s just largely a scattershot of high-emotion, low-stakes neighbourhood pettiness. So this impressed in what it did well, but left me cold overall. 3w

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