{"product_id":"the-museum-of-lies-9781915785435","title":"The Museum of Lies","description":"\u003cp\u003eCary Scott's remarkable life story of spectacular good fortune, mixed with soul-crushing abuse, is frankly unbelievable. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEven to Cary himself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a series of disturbing, unfiltered monologues, Cary unburdens himself of his memories -- of being raised by a psychopathic single mother who was abandoned by her gay husband, of becoming the target of a pedophile, of becoming morbidly obese, followed by quack treatments that boomerang him alarmingly into anorexia. Cary recalls being a bullied gay teenager who literally crucifies himself with a hammer and nails to get out of gym class. From a psych ward, he finds himself instantly famous after an unintentionally homoerotic poem he wrote for a high school assignment finds its way to becoming the #1 pop song in the nation. In the years that follow, Cary's life nosedives again and again, yet he always finds himself rescued by bizarre deus-ex-machina occurrences.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAll these tales, however, are placed into doubt after his former therapist is accused in the media of implanting false memories in patients. Cary is labeled a pathological liar in a national magazine cover story.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRefusing to believe that his exceptional life never actually happened, Cary creates a grotesque, secret, museum to himself filled with artefacts of atrocities and miracles which prove that his memories are true -- but is it only a museum of lies?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Clink Street Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/06\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781915785435\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 218\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.53lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.50d","brand":"J. Timothy Hunt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45187161915573,"sku":"9781915785435","price":12.74,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_be176c6a-9314-4663-895a-d81c1fe93883.jpg?v=1742271304","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-museum-of-lies-9781915785435","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}