Mice 1961 recounts a pivotal day in the fraught relationship of two orphaned sisters through the eyes of their obsessive lodger/housekeeper. How will Jody cope if her younger sibling Mice, bullied and belittled in their community for her unusual appearance and habits, leaves home? How can their all-watching companion bond herself irrevocably to the sisters? When an unsettling stranger arrives, all three women are driven toward momentous change.
Stacey Levine is the author of two short fiction collections, My Horse And Other Stories, and The Girl With Brown Fur, as well as the novels Dra— and Frances Johnson. Her debut collection won a PEN/West (now PEN USA) Fiction Award; her work has twice been shortlisted for the Washington State Book Award. Recipient of a Stranger Genius Award for Literature, her fiction has appeared in Your Impossible Voice, The Brooklyn Rail, Tin House, Yeti, The Fairy Tale Review, The Iowa Review, Golden Handcuffs, Seattle Magazine, and other venues. Her short fiction has been translated for Japanese and Danish publications. Her new novel, Mice 1961, was published by Verse Chorus Press in March 2024.
