This will, no doubt, be one of my favorite novels of the year. This book is about a wealthy investor (Andrew Bevel) and his reclusive wife (Mildred Bevel) who actually made a lot of money when the stock market crashed in 1929. After a scathing biography is published about the Bevels, Andrew hires Ida Partenza to write his autobiography. This is a novel within a novel with a memoir added to that. Diaz does a sublime job of twisting the realities and the myths of these characters and keeps the reader wondering who or what can be trusted. The characters are quite cold and unlikeable, but I was fascinated with Mildred (or was it Helen?) from the very first page.

Recommended for fans of Edith Wharton, old New York, and historical fiction.

Thanks to #NetGalley and #PanMacmillan for an advance copy in exchange for this honest review.