Friends of the Museum

“Inside a New York City Museum: flirting, fund-raising and fraud … Clever … McGowan exploits the potential of her workplace setting with ruthless precision, the museum’s staff offering endless possibilities for sociopolitical commentary, interpersonal dalliances, economic hypocrisies and questions of cultural legacy.” –The New York Times“Friends of the Museum is a marvel. I devoured this novel with such pleasure and finished with chills, dazzled by its sheer life. I’m in awe of Heather McGowan’s virtuosic talent. The depth of her compassion, her sharp eye and wry humor and, above all, her peerlessly rich and brilliant imagination that can conjure all of life, its singular, jangly wonder, in a day at the museum. One of my favorite novelists writing today.” –Mona Awad, bestselling author of Rouge and Bunny“A satirical and incisive look at arts institutions and those who love them, Friends of the Museum is like nothing you’ve read before.” –Town & Country

Heather McGowan is the author of Friends of the Museum, Schooling, and Duchess of Nothing. Schooling was named a Best Book of the Year by Newsweek, the Detroit Free Press, and the Hartford Courant. McGowan received an MFA from Brown University and has been awarded the Rome Prize in Literature and the Berlin Prize Fellowship for Fiction at the American Academy in Berlin.