The Dime Museum

Name: The Dime Museum
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ISBN: 9781609531577

A novel in stories

Joyce Hinnefeld

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English

Unbridled Books
25 September 2025

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

""A vibrant, terrific novel"" - Joan Silber

Hinnefeld's web of characters are bound by legacies, genes, philanthropy, and chance but gravitate largely around Charlie, a rich, white, college graduate who ends up in Venice. He's struggling to understand how his significant privilege has destroyed a romantic relationship, but he draws unwanted interest from other quarters with his interest in the writing of Ezra Pound. His Dreamer ex-girlfriend, Min, becomes a nurse and is overwhelmed by caregiving and loss, including the untimely death of a Vietnam veteran who works as a gardener for Charlie's mother.

In this novel that spans generations, though, it is Charlie's great-great grandmother, who cherished a forbidden love for a Vaudevillian male impersonator, that defines his life. She is the source of his wealth but also mother to his lonely great-aunt, who in the end controls how he's raised.

Hinnefeld writes about harsh realities, the importance of connection, and tender hearts in a fragile world. Yet she also writes of the hope and healing found in planting gardens, in poetry and art, and in families forged from abiding love and respect rather than bound only by blood.

By: Joyce Hinnefeld
Imprint: Unbridled Books
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 209mm, Width: 139mm, Spine: 12mm
Weight: 283g
ISBN: 9781609531577
ISBN 10: 1609531574
Pages: 176
Publication Date: 25 September 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Joyce Hinnefeldis the author of the short story collectionsTell Me Everything(winner of the 1997 Bread Loaf Bakeless Prize in Fiction) andThe Beauty of Their Youth(2020), the novelsIn Hovering Flight(2008) andStranger Here Below(2010), and of other short stories and essays. She is an Emerita Professor of English at Moravian University in Bethlehem, PA, and the founder and director of the Moravian Writers' Conference.

Reviews for The Dime Museum: A novel in stories

“How beautifully knit The Dime Museum is—as soon as I finished it, I went right back to the beginning, to see the full span of it and to put together the wonderful complications of the characters. A vibrant, terrific novel.” — Joan Silber