Set on the eve of the Bay of Pigs invasion, Stacey Levine’s novel recounts the experience of two orphaned sisters and their housekeeper.
” — which is not about small, intelligent rodents but about two young sisters and their live-in housekeeper — I laughed aloud many times. It was a startled, delighted laughter produced not by commonplace tricks of humor but something singular to Levine’s writing: a brilliant chemistry of alienation and familiarity I’ve never seen anywhere else.
Eighteen-year-old Mice, whose real name is Ivy, acquired her nickname on an unfortunate maternal whim because of the whiteness of her hair and her shaking eyes. As a person with albinism in a hostile milieu, Mice leads a furtive existence: Made to stay inside by day, she’s only permitted out when sunlight is gone. At which point she gets harassed by a gaggle of teenagers making a sport out of verbal abuse.
Meanwhile Girtle, our obsessive narrator-floor-sleeper, is so desperate to be part of the sisters’ family that bedding down behind their couch doesn’t faze her in the least. Indeed, her standards are low: “Then it occurred to me that since I’d begun to live with the sisters, I’d never once been struck — not even close. Warmth rose in me, and I retraced my steps down the alleyway to Jody, happy and appreciative.
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