All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me Bradford Angier Building a family is messy

Building a family is messy business

When a disruptively winsome servant named Snow enters their household

says no one will believe it

Mary and Eleanor become fast friends confiding their secrets

All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me Bradford Angier Building a family is messyA best book of the year from New York Public Library, NPR, the Financial Times, Book Riot, and the Sunday Times (London). A fascinating, revelatory 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 Metropolitan Museum of Art every year. But only a select few have unrestricted access to every nook and cranny.