Books & Bagels: Portrait of an Unknown Lady

October's Books and Bagels read is Portrait of an Unknown Lady, by María Gainza. In Buenos Aires, two women play a cat-and-mouse game of deception and manipulation. An obsessive art critic pursues an absurdly gifted forger, seeking to unravel the secrets of the art underworld and nail the mysterious criminal, in this seductive meditation on “authenticity” and the gap between narrative and lived experience.