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Title: Impossible Views of the World

Author: Lucy Ives

Narrator: Cassandra Campbell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-01-17

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 12 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

A witty, urbane, and sometimes shocking debut novel, set in a hallowed New York museum, in which a coworker's disappearance and a mysterious map change a life forever

Stella Krakus, a curator at Manhattan's renowned Central Museum of Art, is having the roughest week in approximately ever. Her soon-to-be ex-husband (the perfectly awful Whit Ghiscolmbe) is stalking her, a workplace romance with "a fascinating, hyper-rational narcissist" is in freefall, and a beloved colleague, Paul, has gone missing. Strange things are afoot: CeMArt's current exhibit is sponsored by a Belgian multinational that wants to take over the world's water supply, she unwittingly stars in a viral video that's making the rounds, and her mother - the imperious, impossibly glamorous Caro - wants to have lunch. It's almost more than she can overanalyze.

But the appearance of a mysterious map depicting a 19th-century utopian settlement sends Stella - a dogged expert in American graphics and fluidomanie (don't ask) - on an all-consuming research mission. As she teases out the links between a haunting poem, several unusual novels, a counterfeiting scheme, and one of the museum's colorful early benefactors, she discovers the unbearable secret that Paul's been keeping and charts a course out of the chaos of her own life.

Pulsing with neurotic humor and dagger-sharp prose, Impossible Views of the World is a dazzling debut novel about how to make it through your early 30s with your brain and heart intact.

Members Reviews:

Yes Absolutely Impossible

For me, this story was a self absorbed and juvenile wander through a thesaurus. Uneven writing, flat characters, cumbersome prose and a meandering story line all conspired to derail this odd book. Even Cassandra Campbell couldn't save this one for me. Three hours to go and I find I couldn't care less how it all ends up--I just want it to be over.

When she let her ex

put his hands on her without breaking his nose and causing a scene, having him arrested for assault, I knew the book was doomed to mediocrity.