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THE MUSEUM OF LIES


A DEAD MAN.
A HUMAN SKELETON.
500 STRANGE OBJECTS.

And one very strange story.

When a dead man is discovered inside a bizarre museum on New York's Upper West Side, the police have no idea who he is—or why his apartment is filled with hundreds of bizarre artifacts.

To understand the museum, you have to understand Cary Scott.

And to understand Cary Scott, you have to decide whether you believe him or not.

The Museum of Lies is a darkly funny, wildly improbable novel about sex, shame, memory, identity—and the stories we create to make sense of our lives.

Hunt is a masterful storyteller, escalating his protagonist's misadventures to the point of farcical truth ... A funny, dark, and deeply human novel about what shapes us as human beings. ... GET IT! Kirkus Reviews

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