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Katy Hays is the author of The Cloisters, a New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller, as well as Read With Jenna Pick. In addition to writing, Katy works as an adjunct Art History Professor, teaching rural students from Truckee to Tecopa. She holds an MA in Art History from Williams College and pursued her PhD in Art History at UC Berkeley. Her academic writing has been published by Ashgate, an imprint of Routledge.

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The Cloisters

3.39 avg rating — 73,320 ratings — published 2022 — 9 editions
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“But that was the hardest thing about death: the unrelenting march of time forward, away from the person you’ve lost.”
Katy Hays, The Cloisters

“And I searched my memory -- that thin, imperfect archive -- for where might have seen it before.

[Ann Stilwell]”
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“What if our whole life—how we live and die—has already been decided for us? Would you want to know, if a roll of the dice or a deal of the cards could tell you the outcome? Can life be that thin, that disturbing?”
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