Visibility City by Tova Mirvis – 249 pages
Book Blurb:
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 fiancé, 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.
My Review: 3 stars
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This book is an insight into marriage and the things that bring you together and that can pull you apart. Overall, it was slightly depressing as it recalls feelings I believe every married person has felt at sometime or another that made you feel lonely and/or alone. Topics such as trying to be the perfect parent, friend or significant other, listening to your inner self, projection and following the rules were all explored yet I couldn’t find myself connecting with the characters as I wish I had.
Quotes I liked:
It is a pleasure to be hidden, but a disaster not to be found.”
– “They were no longer a married couple but the co-owners of a daycare center.”
– “It was better to say nothing than to have your excitement met with indifference; better not to talk than to find you were talking to yourself.”
– “How was it possible that you could be tied to someone by so much and so little?”
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Seems like it’d be a good read!
I did enjoy it!