Patrick Bringley

A moving, revelatory story about one of the world's great museums and art's capacity to heal, by a writer who spent a decade as a museum guard. THE SUNDAY TIMES ART BOOK OF THE YEAR A Financial Times Best Book of 2023 A revelatory portrait of a great museum and the moving story of one guard's quest to find solace...

New 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...