Museum Pieces Author:Elizabeth Tallent A group of cultured intellectuals in Santa Fe bicker and swarm in this marvelously choreographed dance of family dysfuncionality. Archeologist Peter Barnes, his ex-wife, and his new girlfriend, are all in the same boat: smart, savvy, but somehow lost emotionally in the painfully humorous chaos of their 1980s liberal lifestyle. When Peter, ... more »an archaeologist, and Clarissa, a painter of Chinese heritage, decide to dissolve their marriage, they and their thirteen-year-old daughter, Tara, encounter the strange world of child-custody, lawyers, and therapists.« less