The Museum of Extraordinary Things
The Museum of Extraordinary Things
Author: Alice Hoffman
Desc: 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.