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She quickly realizes that the grass is not always greener on the other side I ate through this book so quickly and had a hard time putting it down It is a well written reflection on the idea that we all have doubts about what we are doing or not doing and we are all a little scared even if we are trying hard not to show it. A city visible but unseen I loved how Mirvis was able to weave all of the characters together Books with a lot of characters can be sort of a mixed bag for me Sometimes they get a little bit too confusing but Mirvis is able to really give each character their own voice Nina starts out as the main character but are added as the book goes on There were so many little details that I really loved in this book I loved reading about Emma s struggle to decide where her life is supposed to be going It felt really real to me I also loved the bit about Nina s husband.

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I grew up in the small Orthodox Jewish community in Memphis Tennessee where I felt both what was grounding about being part of a such an enclosed world as well as what was stifling This became the subject of m first novel The Ladies Auxiliary which I started writing when I no longer living in Memphis Being away from home enabled me to look back and it and explore my own ambivalence about belonging My second novel The Outside World is also set in an Orthodox Jewish world and is about two families whose children marry each other In that book I wanted to write about the conflict between tradition and modernity and also about marriage and dreams and belief and doubt My third novel Visible City began when I moved from New York City I grew up in the small Orthodox Jewish community in Memphis Tennessee where I felt both what was grounding about being part of a such an enclosed world as well as what was stifling This became the subject of m first novel The Ladies Auxiliary which I started writing when I no longer living in Memphis Being away from home enabled me to look back and it and explore my own ambivalence about belonging My second novel The Outside World is also set in an Orthodox Jewish world and is about two families whose children marry each other In that book I wanted to write about the conflict between tradition and modernity and also about marriage and dreams and belief and doubt My third novel Visible City began when I moved from New York City to a Boston suburb I was so homesick for a city I had come to live and longed for the anonymous intimacy that comes from living among so many strangers Visible City is about a woman who watches her neighbors from her windows and becomes entangled in their lives It s a book about watching people we don t know but about the difficulty of seeing people we do know as well It s also about a lost stained glass window and about motherhood and the loneliness of marriage. EPub Visible city-data And now after these three novels I ve written a memoir called The Book of Separation It originated with an essay I wrote in the New York Times about leaving my marriage and my Orthodox Jewish faith After the piece came out I was flooded with emails from people telling me their own stories of loss and change and it inspired me to write this book The Book of Separation is about wrestling with doubt about trying to be the person I was expected to be and about decided to change when change felt as terrifying as anything I could do I wrote about my experience of leaving a world where so much was scripted for me and trying to forge a new way of life that felt genuine to me site_link One of the characters comments that someone looking at a marriage from the outside can never really know what truly goes on between man and wife Another wonders who has had the desire to just run from everything as fast and as far as you can Looking out her window at her neighbors Nina imagines their lives to be what she wants them to be As she gets to know the people in her community she realizes that appearances deceive and their is tremendous dissatisfaction and tension beneath the surface Is anyone content Has anyone s life become what they envisioned Is it too late to change An insightful and thoughtful book about how our lives seem to drift in a direction we had not planned or anticipated how our choices can fool us who can change that course and who cannot I loved The Ladies Auxiliary for it s glimpse into a somewhat closed community how those people interacted and the consequences of their actions on each other This book is similar and largely why it appealed to me I suppose I enjoyed it and found it somewhat poignant because don t many of us wonder how we came to be where we are What would I do if faced with the possibility of changing my life It s interesting to speculate Hardcover Visible city pertains to an apartment building in NYC where inhabitants peer from their windows to their neighbors windows and project their dreams and desires onto their neighbor s lives Of course what they see is the surface of each other the conspicuous exterior The running motif concerns the peeling of the veneers to acutely reflect on their own lives and unearth their authentic self. Ebook visible city download Leon a therapist is married to Claudia a scholar of the sublime mural and stained glass artist John LaFarge Their grown daughter Emma is engaged but ambivalent about her writer fianc Steven She is temporarily living with her parents since she broke her ankle and is equivocal about her dissertation studies in French Lately she has noticed that her parents are not what they once seemed. What do you see when you visit a city With a view onto their window Nina perceives a life for Leon s family that derives from her own imagination Nina is married to a workaholic lawyer Jeremy who is trying to make partner while she takes care of their two small children 24 7 She feels oppressed in the affected posture of parenthood i. Visible cityo e pretending consummate content The contemporary parenting style incorporates the cardinal rule of never losing your temper but beneath all this perfection lay terror The only language spoken was certainty Outwardly she was reciting the maxims with everyone else The kids were always delicious and she wouldn t miss this for the world Nina hides her restiveness observing the masks of other mothers while participating in this tacitly agreed temperament and language Here with the other Upper West Side mommies it is a sin to complain about motherhood. Visible cityv book In the midst of inescapable unease there s noisy construction next door as old historic buildings are razed to make way for new steel and glass high rises Leon welcomes the new construction Claudia is livid about the destruction of momentous old buildings and periodically screams from her open window at the noise outside Eventually all these lives begin to entangle and the boundaries between neighbors gradually dissolve The author is a sharp observer of the inner contradictions that denude people s lives This is demonstrated through the characters thoughts and inner dialogue However the intersecting of these individuals which is the narrative purpose is also the narrative s shortcomings The dialogue is stilted and prosaic the emotional connections feel forced and cursory The extended metaphor of La Farge s stained glass always dynamic the colors in a continual state of creation when exposed to light can t save this boilerplate story I could not connect with any of the characters because the emotional seams were weak the interactions contrived. EPub Visible city-data This was a quick read easily finished in a couple of sittings Mirvis has a talent for the written word for rendering passages that inspire introspection I hope that her next novel provides fully dimensional characters and an original story Hardcover The title Visible City refers to an apartment building in New York City Residents peekthrough their neighbors windows I couldn t help but laugh and wonder about the quality of the Fisher Price binoculars which were used With all the peeking going on and imagined stories of others lives. Visible citymail the characters grapple with a desire for their privacy the comfort of staying invisible with their desire for intimacy and connection Ultimately the characters are struggling with themselves exploring their own blind spots but it s so much easier to find fault or make up stories about other people There is an ongoing metaphor La Farge s stained glassthe colors in a continual state of creation when exposed to light. Visible citymail much like our own lives we are constantly changing with topics on parenting betrayal art culture examining what we see in public vs what is private what is true and what is imagined Books set in NYC are often a draw THE GOLDFINCH A LITTLE LIFE but this one is good not fantastic but good I do think the author has talent though and I d be happy to read another book by her I d like to read The Ladies Auxillaryanother book by Tova Mirvis next 3 5 stars Hardcover 4. View the city 5 stars Visible City starts out feeling very much like Hitchcock s Rear Window which is my very favorite Hitchcock movie by the way and turns out to be something much Nina can t help but to spy on her apartment building neighbors She yearns for their seemingly calm lives and makes up stories as to what she thinks is going on with them They seem to have their lives all together when she feels like her life is falling apart When she meets the neighbors that she had been watching who is supposed to be working a well regarded job that he isn t really sure that he likes exploring the underground of the city instead of being at home with his family All of these little details really made the characters interesting and really come to life for me. Visible cityofws org/paywater This book definitely resonated with me I think the struggle to feel like we are in the same boat as everyone else when it comes to our dreams hopes and fears is an amazing realization and one that I find I need reminders about myself Hardcover Once again I give a higher rating than usual to a book because it s set in the city I love The urban geometry of people living in cubes on top of one another provides limitless opportunity to create linked stories create characters who only share a closeness in geography Last year there was a similar book Triuburbia which could serve as a companion piece to this one wherein the characters live outwardly enviable lives in Tribeca In Visible City the characters are further uptown centered around Columbia University But the opportunity for connection and conflict remains the same. Visible in or visible on As the book opens a woman watches her neighbors a la Rear Window drawing her own conclusions about their behaviors and lives Here are people visible to one another in their most intimate details and not caring if they themselves are providing voyeuristic intrigue for others As the book evolves into an examination of neighborhood clashes and unions the author points out that If you talk to a stranger long enough they become a friend With varying results This book didn t hold the poignancy for me that Last Block in Harlem did or anything by Paul Auster or Pete Hammill but Mirvis shows promise and I look forward to what comes next from her Hardcover

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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. Book Visible citytime 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 fianc 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. Visible City pdfescape 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 Visible CityI love New York stories as much as I don t like the city itself which is considerably And so it was my main reason for picking up this book but it turned out to be such a lovely meditation of urban isolation social identity and parenthood that geography really didn t even matter The classic grass is greener premise of neighbors in a posh neighborhood witnessing each other through windows gets explored and played out as the lives observed become lives interconnected It s amazing how small a city that large can seem It s amazing how far our perceptions of others are from reality I think anyone who s ever spied at strangers through their windows and wondered about their lives anyone whose life didn t turn out the way they planned it whose relationships became situations of ritual and convenience would enjoy this book tremendously The fact that it is incredibly well written with concision of language and emotional intelligence certainly helps as well Really enjoyable book Recommended Hardcover I received this book from the GoodReads Free Giveaways and that s why I m doing a review. Visible City pdfescape I should start off by saying that this is a NOVEL not a book So if you are looking for a light fluffy read then this is probably not the read for you While it is NOT a really difficult read you ll definitely have to use brain cells than you would while reading some of the popular Fiction out there Visible City by Tova Mirvis is a novel about how people frequently become trapped in a rut during the course of their life This rut may come in the form of career relationship or general life issues and oftentimes we may not realize we re even stuck in that rut This causes us to ascribe to the people around us the attributes which we feel are lacking in our own lives Some examples That woman loves being a stay at home mom That man is so passionate about his job That couple has a relationship full of so much love. Visible changes memorial city appointment The novel is about the way the 5 main characters interact with each other and how those interactions may or may not help each of them in answering the question Is this all I can expect from life or is there something out there for me I liked the novel and thought it was pretty good And I would than likely read another book by this author if it was about a topic that I was interested in I would also recommend it to my friends if I knew they enjoyed this type of novel My only complaint is that the first 50 pages or so were an extremely rough read Since this was an Advance Reading Uncorrected Proof Copy I m not entirely sure if those pages were fully edited yet The issue was that the author used so many commas and made the sentences so complex that I had to reread many of them several times before being able to fully follow what was going on It felt like the sentences in those pages had 50 words each and 10 commas The flow of the sentences and even the paragraphs was disrupted making it incredibly hard to get into the story After those 50 pages though the novel got easier to read and enjoyable But like I said I liked the novel so I m glad I powered through the beginning and didn t give up on it Hardcover Made it halfway through this before giving up Told from multiple perspectives of neighbors in NYC there were just too many changes in narrative for me to stay connected to the story Hardcover I would have given this book one star but the story line surrounding abandoned NYC subway stations was fascinating However the rest of the plot felt forced and I disliked all the characters even the children Hardcover Visible City is a departure from Mirvis s previous books yet it works for me on so many levels I love how she plays with this concept of Visible what we see of others how they view us how we think we are being perceived This novel weaves together the story of many characters which I often find frustrating but not here each story nestles nicely into the next and they each feed off one another One of the characters Jeremy a frustrated lawyer becomes involved in visibility in the most literal of ways becoming obsessed with that which is hidden in New York starting with the secret defunct subway entrance at City Hall His wife Nina is Rear Window esque spying on neighbors from her living room window out of her own frustration at the confines of motherhood And then there are those who are spied upon an older couple grappling with their inner selves compared to how they are seen by others The writing is lush and beautiful and while I loved the ending I could have stayed enmeshed in the world for much longer Truly a lovely read Hardcover.

: Visible cityz az many of the occupantsbecame acquainted and begin to interact But when the shield is removed, Book Visible citytime However once we truly connect with the people around us we realize they have the same doubts fears and dreams as we do