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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Online Book Club: "Hunt's writing ability is phenominal"

Online Book Club gives The Museum of Lies "five out of five stars" and says "Hunt’s writing ability is phenomenal. His writing is so inviting, witty, and well-written that I could feel every emotion that Cary felt. Being able to make your readers feel the emotions of your fictional characters is a gift." "Once I passed the halfway point of the book, I couldn’t put it down. After each memory of Cary’s ended, I had to keep reading to find out what happened to him. His childhood was so tragic and horrible (and somehow sprinkled with little bits of good luck—like writing a poem at 15 that gets picked up by a famous singer) that I couldn’t stop reading until I knew the ending." "I highly recommend this book to those who like funny, engaging stories that are, in essence, just very well-written." Read the full review here: https://forums.onlinebookclub.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=708117 AVAILABLE NOW IN PAPERBACK, KINDLE & KOBO! CANADA -- https:...

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 &...

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...

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