The Museum Of Extraordinary Things by Alice Hoffman
Hoffman will transport you into a sinister but enchanting world, where two young people strive find hope, freedom, and each other, despite the odds.
Coralie Sardie is a girl who has been unwillingly drawn into the treacherous schemes of her father, and spent her life inside the confines of his shady freak show. With her webbed fingers and excellent swimming abilities, she performs as "The Mermaid", and has been her father's puppet for her entire life. However, Coralie begins to see through the filmy lies surrounding her, and starts to break free.
Eddie Cohen, a photographer and a runaway who wants to forget his past, becomes entangled in the strange disappearance of a young girl from the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. Through pure circumstance, he finds Coralie after spotting her spying on him in the woods. The two fall in love and attempt to unravel the mystery surrounding the lost girl, discovering that the entire occurrence is much darker than it seems.
I highly recommend this beautiful, tragic book, and hope that you will find yourself as lost in it as I was. You can purchase it on Amazon here:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Museum-Extraordinary-Things-Novel/dp/1451693567#
Coralie Sardie is a girl who has been unwillingly drawn into the treacherous schemes of her father, and spent her life inside the confines of his shady freak show. With her webbed fingers and excellent swimming abilities, she performs as "The Mermaid", and has been her father's puppet for her entire life. However, Coralie begins to see through the filmy lies surrounding her, and starts to break free.
Eddie Cohen, a photographer and a runaway who wants to forget his past, becomes entangled in the strange disappearance of a young girl from the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. Through pure circumstance, he finds Coralie after spotting her spying on him in the woods. The two fall in love and attempt to unravel the mystery surrounding the lost girl, discovering that the entire occurrence is much darker than it seems.
I highly recommend this beautiful, tragic book, and hope that you will find yourself as lost in it as I was. You can purchase it on Amazon here:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Museum-Extraordinary-Things-Novel/dp/1451693567#