Visible City Author:Tova Mirvis A Real Simple Best Book of 2014?A glittering novel about fate, fantasy, and the anonymity of urban life.? ? O, The Oprah Magazine — ?Mirvis's meticulously choreographed novel surprises and moves us.? ? New York Times Book Review — ?Graceful yet vigorous.? ? New York Magazine — From the window of her Manhattan apartment, Nina spends her evenings wat... more »ching the older couple across the street. She is drawn to their quiet contentment, so unlike her own lonely, chaotic world of child rearing. One night, through that same window, she spies a young couple in the throes of passion. 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, Nina and her neighbors each begin to question their own paths.
With a ?humane, intelligent perception of the emotional lives of her characters? (Wall Street Journal), Mirvis conjures a New York City 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.« less