Mice 1961

"MICE 1961 recounts a pivotal day in the fraught relationship of two orphaned sisters through the eyes of their obsessively observant housekeeper. Will Jody be able to cope if her younger sibling Mice, subject to constant harassment in their community for her unusual appearance and habits, leaves home? How will their all-watching companion convey her fierce attachment to them both? When they encounter with an unsettling stranger at a neighborhood party, each of them is driven toward momentous changes. Set in southern Florida at the peak of Cold War hysteria, this novel is a powerful meditation on belonging and separateness, conformity and otherness"--