This was impossible to put down and I loved it. It's about art and art-making and art as immortality -- but it's got so much universality and humanity that it will speak to all readers who have wanted to make a mark, to be remembered. 
 "But is it all just...fashion? Are there any absolutes?" 
 "Sure! In here [points to heart]...just not out there." 
 "Oh, but it CAN, dear boy, art CAN change the world! Just very...very...slowly."