{"product_id":"the-museum-of-human-history-9781953534910","title":"The Museum of Human History","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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 \u003cem\u003eThe Museum of Human History\u003c\/em\u003e is a brilliant and fascinating novel about how time shapes us, asking what--if anything--we would be without it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRebekah Bergman\u003c\/b\u003e's fiction has been published in \u003ci\u003eJoyland, Tin House, The Masters Review\u003c\/i\u003e anthology, and other journals. She lives in Rhode Island with her family.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Tin House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51812615553298,"sku":"9781953534910","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_9bdc6747-c715-48a7-8f94-91cb4a985557.jpg?v=1766492674","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-museum-of-human-history-9781953534910","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}