{"product_id":"friends-of-the-museum-a-novel","title":"Friends of the Museum by Heather McGowan","description":"\u003cp\u003eCoworkers at a legendary but troubled New York City museum struggle with issues large and small over the course of one extraordinary day in this whip-smart “marvel” (Mona Awad, bestselling author of Bunny) of a novel in the vein of The White Lotus.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Diane Schwebe, the director of a major New York museum, is awakened in the early morning by a text message from the museum’s lawyer, it is the start of a twenty-four hour roller-coaster ride.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDiane has sacrificed many things in her life to help the fading institution stave off irrelevance and financial ruin. In this battle, she’s surrounded by her stalwart supporters: her enigmatic and tireless personal assistant, Chris; the museum’s trusty head of security, Shay; and its general counsel, Henry—a man whose ability to weasel his way out of a jam is matched only by his capacity to avoid learning anything from the experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOrbiting Diane is a motley assortment of museum employees, each on the precipice of collapse or revelation: among them a line cook staring down a huge opportunity he’s not sure he wants; a costume curator stuck in an inescapable rut; and the ambivalent curator of the museum’s film program, whose first day on the job might very well be his last.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn this day of the museum’s annual gala, every plate that Diane has kept spinning will fall and by daybreak, someone will be dead.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWise, surprising, and darkly funny, Friends of the Museum is a kaleidoscopic tragicomedy that surges along to the unstoppable tick of the clock, leaving you on the edge of your seat until the final second.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Catnap Books","offers":[{"title":"Used","offer_id":52865226080522,"sku":"9781668031278","price":8.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0729\/4730\/2666\/files\/70883915-51D3-4264-BC20-591730FE2964.jpg?v=1776158916","url":"https:\/\/catnapbooks.nl\/products\/friends-of-the-museum-a-novel","provider":"Catnap Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}