After nearly drowning, eight-year-old Maeve Wilhelm falls into a strange comatose state.
Weaving together speculative elements and classic fables, and exploring urgent issues from the opioid epidemic to the hazards of biotech to the obsession with self-improvement and remaining forever young, Rebekah Bergman\'s The Museum of Human History is a brilliant and fascinating novel about how time shapes us, asking what--if anything--we would be without it..
As Maeve remains asleep, the characters grapple with a mysterious new technology and medical advances that promise to ease anxiety and end pain, but instead cause devastating side effects.
A wide cast of characters finds themselves pulled toward Maeve, each believing that her mysterious sleep holds the answers to their life\'s most pressing questions: Kevin Marks, a Museum owner obsessed with preservation
Monique Gray, a refugee and performance artist
Lionel Wilhelm, an entomologist who dreamed of being an astrophysicist; and Evangeline Wilhelm, Maeve\'s identical twin.
As years pass, it becomes clear that Maeve is not physically aging.
After nearly drowning, eight-year-old Maeve Wilhelm falls into a strange comatose state
