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The Dime Museum: A Novel in Stories
Paperback
General FictionGeneral GLBTQIA FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $18.00
ISBN13: 9781609531577
Publisher: Unbridled Books
Published: Aug 12 2025
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.10
Language: English
A vibrant, terrific novel -- Joan Silber
Hinnefeld's web of characters are bound by legacies, genes, philanthropy, and chance but gravitate largely around Charlie, a rich, white, college graduate who ends up in Venice. He's struggling to understand how his significant privilege has destroyed a romantic relationship, but he draws unwanted interest from other quarters with his interest in the writing of Ezra Pound. His Dreamer ex-girlfriend, Min, becomes a nurse and is overwhelmed by caregiving and loss, including the untimely death of a Vietnam veteran who works as a gardener for Charlie's mother.
In this novel that spans generations, though, it is Charlie's great-great grandmother, who cherished a forbidden love for a Vaudevillian male impersonator, that defines his life. She is the source of his wealth but also mother to his lonely great-aunt, who in the end controls how he's raised.
Hinnefeld writes about harsh realities, the importance of connection, and tender hearts in a fragile world. Yet she also writes of the hope and healing found in planting gardens, in poetry and art, and in families forged from abiding love and respect rather than bound only by blood.
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