The Forest Museum

<p><strong>Get lost in the woods.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>In the summer of 1972 a young Brazilian-American woman fresh out of art school takes a summer job restoring paintings at a hunting lodge in Germany's Black Forest. Her wanderings in the lush woodland surrounding the estate become the vehicle for a quiet thoughtful adventure filled with richly layered digressions - from childhood memories and road trips to moths Brazil and Big Sur to the atomic bomb and Hollywood movies - amid a backdrop of forest splendor hidden wonders and crumbling ruins. </p><p><br></p><p>An unusual and atmospheric novel <em>The Forest Museum </em>invites readers to stroll along through a series of dreamlike tableaux in a calming but thematically complex journey that ruminates upon the beauty of the earth as well on the darkness of history and the inarticulate longings of the human heart.</p><p><br></p>