The Museum of Extraordinary Things - Alice Hoffman

New York City, 1911. Meet Coralie Sardie, circus girl, web-fingered mermaid, shy only daughter of Professor Sardie and raised in the bizarre surroundings of his Museum of Extraordinary Things.

And meet Eddie Cohen, a handsome young immigrant who has run away from his painful past and his Orthodox family to become a photographer, documenting life on the teeming city streets. One night by the freezing waters of the Hudson River, Coralie stumbles across Eddie, who has become enmeshed in the case of a missing girl, and the fates of these two hopeful outcasts collide as they search for truth, beauty, love and freedom in tumultuous times.

I enjoyed this but found it hard going. Whereas I normally fly through Ms Hoffman's books, this one took me several days. So that's the reason for the 3 stars.

Read for the Shelf Reflection Reading Challenge.
Prompt 3: A book with 'thing' in the title.
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐