Bestsellers World: The Museum of Lies is "Terrific. Engaging."

Bestsellers World calls The Museum of Lies "an enjoyable (if somewhat unsettling) read that will leave you thinking back on your own life and wondering what about your existence you can prove."

"The character work in The Museum of Lies is terrific. Hunt does a beautiful job of portraying Cary as a profoundly troubled man who is constantly looking to fix himself and is never satisfied with the results. He shows Cary at various points in his youth enduring significantly damaging forms of abuse and humiliation. While the severity of these traumas varies greatly, we see how even comparatively minor embarrassments can take their toll and contribute to the mental breakdown of a bright and promising child."

"The Museum of Lies is a quick read that is portrayed more as a collection of vignettes with a common theme than a standard novel. The non-linear storytelling spanning decades is engaging as the reader is constantly bouncing back and forth between cause and effect, with the questions about the reliability of memory leaving you wondering which is which.

Hunt does a great job of keeping the reader wanting more by leaving you with questions at the end of every chapter that often are not answered until several chapters later. "

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Kirkus Reviews: "A masterful storyteller"

Kirkus Reviews calls The Museum of Lies "A funny, dark, and deeply human novel about what shapes us as human beings. "Leaping back and forth between childhood traumas and the yo-yo dieting and personal humiliations of his adulthood, Hunt’s novel follows Cary’s unlikely journey toward self-understanding via recovered memory therapy—though whether the memories he ends up recovering are true (and what they might mean for his sense of himself) is not so cut and dried. The writing is as psychologically acute as it is funny ..." "Hunt is a masterful storyteller, escalating his protagonist’s misadventures to the point of farcical truth. Cary feels just responsible enough for his predicaments to make him a compellingly tragic figure, someone whose larger-than-life problems feel both real and searingly relevant to the reader." Read the full review here: https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/j-timothy-hunt/the-museum-of-lies/ AVAILABLE NOW IN PAPERBACK, KINDLE &...

Book Review: Globe and Mail

The Globe and Mail’s 8th annual selection of the 100 best and most influential books of 2005 CURRENT AFFAIRS & POLITICS The Politics of Bones: Dr. Owens Wiwa and the Struggle for Nigeria's Oil By J. Timothy Hunt McClelland & Stewart, 389 pages, $36.99 This is a skillfully written book with many strands: the politics of development in an oil-rich nation; the local practices of large multinational companies; the colourful but often violent recent history of Africa's most populous nation; and a story of personal tragedy, flight and survival. The book focuses on Owens Wiwa and his wife, Diana. Wiwa was the brother of Ken Saro-Wiwa, charismatic leader of the Ogoni people, hanged by Sani Abacha's regime in 1995 on murky charges of political murder. — David M. Malone.

In the News

J. Timothy Hunt and his family were featured in the cover story of Toronto magazine "Neighbours of Yorkville & the Annex." (Issue no 9, July 2018. Best Version Media).

J. Timothy Hunt

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