Mice 1961: A Novel

FINALIST, 2025 PULITZER PRIZE IN FICTION

NAMED IN WASHINGTON POST'S "50 NOTABLE WORKS OF FICTION" IN 2024

“Stacey Levine’s fiction is unlike anything else. Peculiar, vivid, preternaturally alert to the strangeness of the human condition, Mice 1961 is terrific.”—Kelly Link, author of The Book of Love

A novel set in the Cold War era about two orphaned half-sisters, a boarder, and the neighbors who surround them, a stylized and startling depiction of lives lived at a high pitch of emotion in the ...