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Today, my guest is Rebecca Bergman, author of the debut novel, The Museum of Human History.

I love a book that's set in a world that's like just a shade different from our own, and it's not even clear if it's a future or just like an alternate timeline, because I just think it gives the writer a lot of room to build.

And I love when it feels analogous to the world that we do live in.

So the fact that you thought maybe it was real is really delightful to me.

All right, that was Rebecca Bergman.

Her debut novel is called The Museum of Human History.

It is available from Tin House.

And it is the official August pick of the Other People Book Club. The Museum of Human History is a wonderful novel, complex, philosophically searching.

It is, among other things, about a young girl, girl eight years old who nearly drowns and then falls into a strange comatose state

where she can breathe on her own but she is not physically aging somehow this This is a haunting,

propulsive, mysterious novel. It is beautifully structured and it features a wide cast of characters

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