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Metropolitan Stories
Metropolitan Stories | Christine Coulson
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From a writer who has worked at the Metropolitan Museum for more than twenty-five years, an enchanting novel that uses the lens of magical realism to show us the Met that the public doesn't see. Hidden behind the Picassos and Vermeers, the Temple of Dendur and the American Wing, exists another world: the hallways and offices, conservation studios, storerooms, and cafeteria that are home to the museum's devoted and peculiar staff of 2,200 people--along with a few ghosts. A surreal love letter to this private side of the Met, Metropolitan Stories unfolds in a series of amusing and poignant vignettes in which we discover larger-than-life characters, the downside of survival, and the powerful voices of the art itself. The result is a novel bursting with magic, humor, and energetic detail, but also a beautiful book about introspection, an ode to lives lived for art, ultimately building a powerful collage of human experience and the world of the imagination.
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Susanita
Metropolitan Stories | Christine Coulson
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1. I love to visit the Smithsonian museums, especially the museum of natural history. My mom worked there when I was in high school, and I got to know the place pretty well.
2. I haven‘t read the tagged book, but it sounds interesting. It‘s featured in this podcast. https://overcast.fm/+AAWzFNQxHHI
#two4tuesday

TheSpineView Love the Smithsonians! Thanks for playing 3mo
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dabbe
Metropolitan Stories | Christine Coulson
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#Two4Tuesday
@TheSpineView (thanks for the tag--you, too, @The_Penniless_Author! 🤩🤩🤩)

1. I've not traveled much, but I was lucky enough to visit the MET in NYC. Here is my face the whole time I was in there: 😮
2. Tagged!

Play? @lil1inblue @OutsmartYourShelf @Karisimo

TheSpineView Love the MET!! ❤️🎨 3mo
dabbe @TheSpineView 💙🩵💙 3mo
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Tkimsal
Metropolitan Stories | Christine Coulson
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Book group trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC. #FirstSaturdayReaders #TheMet

dabbe 🤩🤩🤩 6mo
Ruthiella The picture reminds me of the scene in When Harry Met Sally, “Waiter, there is too much pepper on my paprikash.” 6mo
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Tkimsal
Metropolitan Stories | Christine Coulson
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Book club today! #FirstSaturdayReaders

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Tkimsal
Metropolitan Stories | Christine Coulson
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Mehso-so

I wanted to like this more, but it never really came together for me. #FirstSaturdayReaders

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Tkimsal
Metropolitan Stories | Christine Coulson
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Next for book club. #FirstSaturdayReaders

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Eggs
Metropolitan Stories | Christine Coulson
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The inside world of the Met: hallways and offices, conservation studios, storerooms, and cafeteria that are home to the museum's devoted and peculiar staff of 2,200 people—along with a few ghosts.

It‘s comprised of delightful vignettes in which we discover larger-than-life characters, the downside of survival, and the powerful voices of the art itself: magical, poignant, serendipitous!

#Pantone2023 @Clwojick

mrp27 Ohh this looks good! I love the Met. 2y
Eggs @mrp27 I hope you enjoy it! 2y
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