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Coralie Sardie is the daughter of the sinister impresario behind The Museum of Extraordinary Things, a Coney Island boardwalk freak show that thrills the masses. An exceptional swimmer, Coralie appears as the Mermaid in her father’s “museum,” alongside performers like the Wolfman, the Butterfly Girl, and a one-hundred-year-old turtle. One night Coralie stumbles upon a striking young man taking pictures of moonlit trees in the woods off the Hudson River. The dashing photographer is Eddie Cohen, a Russian immigrant who has run away from his father’s Lower East Side Orthodox community and his job as a tailor’s apprentice. When Eddie photographs the devastation on the streets of New York following the infamous Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, he becomes embroiled in the suspicious mystery behind a young woman’s disappearance and ignites the heart of Coralie.
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The Museum of Extraordinary Things, Alice Hoffman
- Language
- Released
- 2014
- Binding
- (Paperback)
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- Subtitle
- A Novel
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Alice Hoffman
- Publisher
- Scribner
- Released
- 2014
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 384
- ISBN10
- 1476766428
- ISBN13
- 9781476766423
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Young Adult, Young Adult Fantasy, American Literature, New York, Magical Realism, Interesting Facts, Curiosities, Fire
- First published
- 2014
- Original title
- The Museum of Extraordinary Things
- Rating
- 3.75 out of 5
- Description
- Coralie Sardie is the daughter of the sinister impresario behind The Museum of Extraordinary Things, a Coney Island boardwalk freak show that thrills the masses. An exceptional swimmer, Coralie appears as the Mermaid in her father’s “museum,” alongside performers like the Wolfman, the Butterfly Girl, and a one-hundred-year-old turtle. One night Coralie stumbles upon a striking young man taking pictures of moonlit trees in the woods off the Hudson River. The dashing photographer is Eddie Cohen, a Russian immigrant who has run away from his father’s Lower East Side Orthodox community and his job as a tailor’s apprentice. When Eddie photographs the devastation on the streets of New York following the infamous Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, he becomes embroiled in the suspicious mystery behind a young woman’s disappearance and ignites the heart of Coralie.