An artist races to finish his forgery of a masterpiece while held captive in surreal, menacing splendor.
Ave Barrera (Guadalajara, Mexico, 1980) is a writer and editor. Her first novel, Puertas demasiado pequeñas (2016) won the Sergio Galindo Award and was published by Charco Press in its English translation under the title The Forgery (2022). Restoration is her second novel to appear in English. It first appeared in 2018 in Mexico and Spain and won the Lipp Prize. Ave has also published short stories and essays in several anthologies and electronic media. Since 2019 she coordinates the Vindictas Collection for the National University of Mexico. In 2023 she received a grant from the Kislak Foundation for a writing residency at the University of Florida, USA.
