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A terrible crime occurs in 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, and a moving portrayal of a father trying and failing to do the right thing.
Nelly Reifler's novel Elect H. Mouse State Judge is original, humorous, entertaining and surprising. It is deep, too, raising questions about the nature and origin of evil, the usefulness and costs of social masks, if and how we should be punished for our transgressions, the mechanisms of power, the long term effects of repression, and more. Reifler is an author who knows how to keep her readers on edge. I was so worried about the well being of several characters. I finished the book days ago but worry about them still. About us all. I had a dream about a Dodecahedron. Remember how fun and exciting it was to play with that little toy oven that baked real brownies? Elect H. Mouse State Judge will make you feel like that all over again.
