The Museum of Intangible Things

by Wendy Wunder

An unforgettable read from the acclaimed author ofThe Probability of Miracles,The Museum of Intangible Thingssparkles with the humor and heartbreak of true friendship and first love.


Loyalty. Envy. Obligation. Dreams. Disappointment. Fear. Negligence. Coping. Elation. Lust. Nature. Freedom. Heartbreak. Insouciance. Audacity. Gluttony. Belief. God. Karma. Knowing what you want (there is probably a French word for it). Saying yes. Destiny. Truth. Devotion. Forgiveness. Life. Happiness (ever after).
Hannah and Zoe haven't had much in their lives, but they've always had each other. So when Zoe tells Hannah she needs to get out of their down-and-out New Jersey town, they pile into Hannah's beat-up old Le Mans and head west, putting everything-their deadbeat parents, their disappointing love lives, their inevitable enrollment at community college-behind them.

As they chase storms and make new friends, Zoe tells Hannah she wants more for her. She wants her to live bigger, dream grander, aim higher. And so Zoe begins teaching Hannah all about life's intangible things, concepts sadly missing from her existence-things likeaudacity, insouciance, karma, and evenhappiness.
An unforgettable read from the acclaimed author ofThe Probability of Miracles,The Museum of Intangible Thingssparkles with the humor and heartbreak of true friendship and first love.
Also by Wendy Wunder-

'Wonderfully Bittersweet.' Seventeen.com

'A crisp, beautifully crafted story of adventure, love, and the limits of friendship.' Booklist, starred review

• ISBN13: 9781595145765
• Publish Date: 1 September 2015 (first published 10 April 2014)
• Publish Status: Out of Stock
• Out of Print: 24 June 2021
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Razorbill
• Format: Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
• Pages: 256
• Language: English

Reviews

[layawaydragon]

I was really excited about this one at first with its important poverty and health issues that I've experienced. But no. I was on board until the road trip and then it had to fuck it all up.

Trigger Warning: Racism, Suicide, Ableism.

This is every other typical YA contemporary where instead of a boy with a manic pixie dream girl, the MC is a girl (Hannah) that's best friends with a manic pixie dream girl that has bipolar disorder (Zoe).

Everyone just prattles on how special Hannah is. She THINKS she saw a white buffalo while they were on the road trip and a Indian woman proclaims that must make her really is special and smokes a peace pipe with her while on the job? After the other white girl fucked with her art?

What about the girls with bipolar reading this? Zoe is just a tool, a lesson for Hannah. There's no help or hope.

In the end, they got away with so much shit and barely faced any consequences. We never find out about how their moms are, but we know Hannah kept enabling her father. Yay!

*eyeroll*

At least it's sex positive I guess...