{"product_id":"9780735221543","title":"Impossible Views of the World","description":"\u003cb\u003eA witty, urbane, and sometimes shocking debut novel, set in a hallowed New York museum, in which a co-worker's disappearance and a mysterious map change a life forever\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStella Krakus, a curator at Manhattan's renowned Central Museum of Art, is having the roughest week in approximately ever. Her soon-to-be ex-husband (the perfectly awful Whit Ghiscolmbe) is stalking her, a workplace romance with \"a fascinating, hyper-rational narcissist\" is in freefall, and a beloved colleague, Paul, has gone missing. Strange things are afoot: CeMArt's current exhibit is sponsored by a Belgian multinational that wants to take over the world's water supply, she unwittingly stars in a viral video that's making the rounds, and her mother--the imperious, impossibly glamorous Caro--wants to have lunch. It's almost more than she can overanalyze. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e But the appearance of a mysterious map, depicting a 19th-century utopian settlement, sends Stella--a dogged expert in American graphics and fluidomanie (don't ask)--on an all-consuming research mission. As she teases out the links between a haunting poem, several unusual novels, a counterfeiting scheme, and one of the museum's colorful early benefactors, she discovers the unbearable secret that Paul's been keeping, and charts a course out of the chaos of her own life. Pulsing with neurotic humor and dagger-sharp prose, \u003ci\u003eImpossible Views of the World\u003c\/i\u003e is a dazzling debut novel about how to make it through your early thirties with your brain and heart intact.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom the Hardcover edition.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47126807478512,"sku":"9780735221543","price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780735221543_p0.jpg?v=1763621453","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780735221543","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}