Mice 1961

Girtle, a runaway from an institution who has talked her way into the home of two parentless sisters, keeps house for them and narrates one decisive day. The elder, Jody, is stern; the younger, Mice, is an albino girl in thick glasses who builds amateur radio sets, asks disarming questions about why people use the words they do, and is mocked by the neighbors and by a pack of bullying 'teenagers', some well past their teens. When Mice disappears rather than go to a potluck where she is supposed to ask about work on the mobile library, Girtle searches for her, fearful of losing her place in the sisters' lives and in the story itself. The arrival of an unsettling stranger pushes all three women toward change.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Set in

United States, 1960s

First published

2024

ISBN

9781959163015 (Verse Chorus Press, United States)