Picasso's Tie

“A wild and often hilarious ride through the art world with an unexpected and surprisingly touching ending.” Bruce Hartman, author of PAROLE and THE PHILOSOPHICAL DETECTIVE RETURNS... In a post-truth era, how do YOU figure out what's real...and what is not? That's what Carl MacElroy, the janitor visited by Picasso's ghost as he polishes the floors of the Philadelphia Museum of Art after hours, is trying to do. From a girlfriend who won't tell him her name to being tasked with finding Picasso's lost tie by the artist's ghostly presence, Carl becomes obsessed with finding the truth. His mission leads him through unexpected bursts of his own artistic creativity as well as oddly-timed bursts of factoids about tortured artists while with his nameless girlfriend in flagrante. As Carl reconnects with his exceptional artistic ability backdropped by memories of his mother's attempted suicide, he finds himself on a labyrinthine path - one that could lead to a truth of friendship, forgiveness and love - or his ultimate spiral downward.