All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me Mónica Armiño Margaret wills herself to forget

Margaret wills herself to forget these unbearable memories

Margery Kempe

The joy is in the tacit agreement between artist and reader that what's happening is magic

With a bartender willing to slip her a free glass of champagne and friends who know the owner

Yet seven decades passed before it was found

All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me Mónica Armiño Margaret wills herself to forgetNew York Times bestseller Named one of the best books of the year by the New York Public Library, the Financial Times, the New York Post, Book Riot, and the Sunday Times (London). An exquisite (The Washington Post) hauntingly beautiful (Associated Press) portrait of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its treasures by a former New Yorker staffer who spent a decade as a museum guard. Millions of people climb the grand marble staircase to visit the