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Like the men of the Renaissance, the founding fathers of this Museum paid high tribute to the ancient art of the New World, which they felt was neither "savage" nor "barbarian," but showed "a cultivation of the love of beauty, measured by an independent standard which, however distinct from ours, nevertheless proves the presence of intellectual and art loving races of men. I was expecting a twist and was looking for clues throughout, but I still didn’t get it until very close to the end, though I did go in some odd directions trying to guess.It's a book I would like to read again, even though I now know the awesome twist, just to see how cleverly it is written. No missing or damaged pages, no creases or tears, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins. A mosaic of seven townsfolk are going about their days, blissfully unaware their lives are about to interweave, interchange and interact; entangling into such a messy web that, together — and unbeknownst to them — they end up changing the face of America forevermore.

The author created an intriguing esemble of characters and allows the reader to dive deep into their minds. The New American Middle existed before the 2016 election, but it wasn’t until after the election that many in the media recognized it.This was little more than an opportunity for the author to exercise a limited vocabulary to give voice to misogyny. One of the characters is a recent immigrant from Ireland and she has a unique perspective on the USA. Like all of their midwestern brethren, Iowa readers can take pride and pleasure in learning from this thoughtful and perceptive analysis of one of their government’s most important but least understood entities. Rosenheim, Martina Rugiadi, Beth Saunders, Joseph Scheier-Dolberg, Femke Speelberg, Perrin Stein, E.