This story about art (paintings) forgery has many observations, said and unsaid, about reality, authenticity, honesty, passion, what is knowable and what is not. The narration takes many forms including dreams, an art auction catalog, and fragments of court records. Characters from the art world and those who create it, collect it, report on it, investigate it, and forge it give the reader a panorama of views. The narrator, who begins the book as an assistant to an art investment expert at a bank but winds up as a journalist and biographer, weaves in the quandary of every non-fiction writer – how to not lie in the face of constant uncertainty. While I learned a lot and enjoyed Gainza’s observations about art, I could have done with a little more character and plot and fewer aphorisms.