One woman show : a novel
(Spoken CD)

Compact disc.

Title from container.

Read by Jackie Sanders, Chris Henry Coffey, Christine Coulson, Megan Tusing.

Author Christine Coulson spent twenty-five years writing for The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Her final project was to write wall labels for the Museum's new British Galleries. During that time, she dreamt of using The Met's strict seventy-five-word label format to describe people as intricate works of art. The result is a bullet of a novel that imagines a privileged twentieth-century woman as an artifact, an object once prized, collected, and critiqued. Told with poignancy and humor over the course of a century, the novel revolves around the life of Kitty Whitaker as she is defined by her potential for display and moved from collection to collection through multiple marriages. Kitty emerges as an eccentric heroine who disrupts her porcelain life with both major force and minor transgressions.