{"product_id":"the-museum-of-lies-9781915785435","title":"The Museum of Lies","description":"\u003cp\u003eCary Scott's remarkable life story of spectacular good fortune, mixed with soul-crushing abuse, is frankly unbelievable. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEven to Cary himself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a series of disturbing, unfiltered monologues, Cary unburdens himself of his memories -- of being raised by a psychopathic single mother who was abandoned by her gay husband, of becoming the target of a pedophile, of becoming morbidly obese, followed by quack treatments that boomerang him alarmingly into anorexia. Cary recalls being a bullied gay teenager who literally crucifies himself with a hammer and nails to get out of gym class. From a psych ward, he finds himself instantly famous after an unintentionally homoerotic poem he wrote for a high school assignment finds its way to becoming the #1 pop song in the nation. In the years that follow, Cary's life nosedives again and again, yet he always finds himself rescued by bizarre deus-ex-machina occurrences.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAll these tales, however, are placed into doubt after his former therapist is accused in the media of implanting false memories in patients. Cary is labeled a pathological liar in a national magazine cover story.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRefusing to believe that his exceptional life never actually happened, Cary creates a grotesque, secret, museum to himself filled with artefacts of atrocities and miracles which prove that his memories are true -- but is it only a museum of lies?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Clink Street Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51325420208402,"sku":"9781915785435","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_36d4109e-6ccb-4157-b509-4b1b41da05c6.jpg?v=1748732848","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-museum-of-lies-9781915785435","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}