Format:
Book
Author:
Bergman, Rebekah, 1989- author.
Title:
The museum of human history : a novel / Rebekah Bergman.
Edition:
First US edition.
Publisher, Date:
Portland, Oregon : Tin House, [2023]
Description:
243 pages ; 22 cm
Summary:
"Complex, philosophically searching, and gorgeously rendered, Rebekah Bergman's The Museum of Human History is a sharp and startling debut about a young girl frozen in time in a world obsessed with youth and self-preservation. After nearly drowning, eight-year-old Maeve Wilhelm falls into a strange comatose state. As years pass, it becomes clear that Maeve is not physically aging. A wide cast of characters finds themselves pulled toward Maeve, each believing that her mysterious "sleep" holds the answers to their life's most pressing questions: Kevin Marks, a museum owner obsessed with preservation; Monique Gray, a refugee and performance artist; Lionel Wilhelm, an entomologist who dreamed of being an astrophysicist; and Evangeline Wilhelm, Maeve's identical twin. As Maeve remains asleep, the characters grapple with a mysterious new technology and medical advances that promise to ease anxiety and end pain, but instead cause devastating side effects. Weaving together speculative elements and classic fables, and exploring urgent issues from the opioid epidemic to the hazards of biotech to the obsession with self-improvement and remaining forever young, Rebekah Bergman's The Museum of Human History is a brilliant and fascinating novel about how time shapes us, asking what-if anything-we would be without it"-- Provided by publisher.
Subjects:
Coma -- Patients -- Fiction.
Interpersonal relations -- Fiction.
Genre:
Science fiction.
Science fiction.
Science fiction.
Novels.
LCCN:
2023005441
ISBN:
9781953534910
1953534910
Other Number:
1348287058
System Availability:
4
Current Holds:
0
# Local items:
4
Control Number:
2228131
Call Number:
BERGMAN
Course Reserves:
0
# Local items in:
2
# System items in:
2