Elect H. Mouse State Judge

Two young girl are abducted and held hostage by a band of religious fanatics. The girls' anxious father, a politician on the eve of an important election, has reasons of his own not to go to the police, so he hires a pair of shady private eyes to investigate. All the elements of a classic noir―except that the kidnapped girls are mice, the abductors are Sunshine Family dolls, and the detectives are Barbie and Ken.
Part 1970s childhood dreamscape, part Raymond Chandler, this is a world both familiar and transformed. Sex shops, illicit affairs, spies, political hypocrisy, and dangerous zealots may coexist with Barbie and Ken's acrobatic poolside sex, but the crises of faith that Nelly Reifler's characters face are as real as our own. Elect H. Mouse State Judge is an unusual―and masterful―blend of irony and tenderness

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 08/06/2013
ISBN: 9780865477650
Pages: 103
Weight: 0.19lbs
Size: 7.48h x 5.09w x 0.30d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 05/06/2013