Behind the Scenes at the Museum

I had a hard time getting into this book, starting and then putting it down several years ago until I decided to give it a go again after reading about it in Jane Smiley's Thirteen Ways of Looking At A Novel. In the end I'm glad I did. It was confusing to keep track of everyone the way she jumps back and forth in time, but the writing style grew on me and I ended up underlining sentences in almost every chapter that spoke to me or that were so beautifully done I had to recognize them in some way. I'd give it 3-1/2 stars if I knew how to half a star.