Ave Barrera's The Forgery (2013/2022) is a Mexican #art caper story about an #artist forced to complete a forgery as part of an inheritance fraud. But by the end its unclear (perhaps purposefully) whether the narrator has experienced imprisonment & exploitation by a violent & rich mastermind, or whether its all a fever dream brought on by a hand injury (turning to sepsis). While quite enjoyable its also finally unsatisfying as a novel.
well there is a sort of happy ending... but like you I found the indeterminacy of the ending just frustrating... perhaps I'm to wedded to #realism in literature?
There's an authority in writing which makes people disposed to trust the author on the world. Even among some, not all, people who are not uncustomed to reading SFF. The same authority in the historical writer Mary Renault, who I rate massively.
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