Mitz

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A charming, airy, and disarmingly melancholy novel [that] makes of Bloomsbury a kind of snow globe-diminutive, self-contained, beautifully agitated-within which major and minor figures are given room to float past at their leisure * Paris Review * A wry, supremely intelligent literary gem about devotion - to writing, to other people, and between humans and their pets. Like The Friend, Mitz captures the heartrending downside of love and connection - loss. But it also reminds us, beautifully, of the "great solace and distraction" of literature * NPR * In short, glistening sentences that refract the larger world, Ms. Nunez describes the appealingly eccentric, fiercely intelligent Woolfs during a darkening time * Wall Street Journal * Mitz shimmers with an emotional truth missing from the most rigorous Bloomsbury histories * Village Voice * At its very best the book takes on the edginess of Mrs. Dalloway * Chicago Tribune * A lesson to all of us who foolishly believed that Flush exhausted the unpromising genre of pet biography, Mitz takes Flush back to the muse, the marmoset that briefly belonged to Virginia and Leonard Woolf. In prose so lucid, so supple, so exquisitely entertaining we only slowly realize we are in the presence of art, Sigrid Nunez constructs a diagram of love and solicitude and abiding solitude: Mitz is tender, astute, wise, funny, and deeply, unsentimentally sad-for all its charm, a novel of masterly formal intelligence * Rosenthal Family Foundation Award given by the American Academy of Arts and Letters *