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Beautifully evocative and full of heart, this stunning work of historical fiction tells the story of Manhattan’s fabled American Museum   In 1842, Phineas T. Barnum is a young man, freshly arrived in New York and still unknown to the world. With uncanny confidence and impeccable timing, he transforms a dusty natural history museum into a great ark for public imagination. Barnum’s museum, with its human wonders and extraordinary live animal menagerie, rises to become not only the nation’s most popular attraction, but also a catalyst that ushers America out of a culture of glassed-in exhibits and into the modern age of entertainment. In this kaleidoscopic setting, the stories of two compelling characters are brought to life. Emile Guillaudeu is the museum’s grumpy taxidermist, who is horrified by the chaotic change Barnum brings to his beloved institution. Ana Swift is a professional giantess plagued by chronic pain and jaded by a world of gawkers. The differences between these two are many: one is isolated and spends his working hours making dead things look alive, while the other has people pushing against her, and reacting to her, every day. But they both move toward change, one a

Who reads Among the Wonderful : A Novel?

Author

Stacy Carlson

Publisher

Steerforth Press

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9781586421847

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction

Rating

3.7 / 5 (52 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14