"A remarkably assured debut" Sunday Times "This is as much a novel
as a reckoning." New York Times The characters are alluring and ...
engaging. So too are the emotional struggles the crew endure as
they try to balance duty to family with their love for China and
the need to understand their own personalities." Literary Review
"This is the heist novel we deserve. Brilliantly twisty and yet so
contemplative [...] this book will continue to haunt you long after
you've reached the end." -Jesse Q. Sutanto, author of Dial A for
Aunties "Portrait of a Thief was everything I imagined and more.
The writing felt close and intimate and the characters felt like
portraits themselves, bursting with life and delicately human."
-Morgan Rogers, author of Honey Girl "Grace D. Li is a virtuosic
storyteller [...] the most exciting debut I've read this year [...]
an intelligent page-turner that will keep you hooked until the very
end." -Lauren Wilkinson, New York Times bestselling author of
American Spy "In this slick, dazzling, debut, the stakes are high
and the writing elegant. Here's a story that offers not just
adventure or a reprieve from the everyday, but big dreams, big
hearts, enduring friendships, and the multitudes of identities that
can exist within each one of us." -Weike Wang, author of Chemistry
"A beautiful examination of identity as children of the diaspora
[...] This fast-paced heist leaves you clutching the pages and
rooting for the thieves." -Roselle Lim, author of Natalie Tan's
Book of Luck and Fortune "A lyrical and action-packed tale of
yearning, connection, self-discovery, and righting wrongs, Portrait
of a Thief is a unique vision of what it means to come home."
-Delilah S. Dawson, New York Times bestselling author of The
Violence
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This was how things began: Boston on the cusp of fall, the Sackler
Museum robbed of 23 pieces of priceless Chinese art. Even in this
back room, dust catching the slant of golden, late-afternoon light,
Will could hear the sirens. They sounded like a promise. Will Chen,
a Chinese American art history student at Harvard, has spent most
of his life learning about the West - its art, its culture, all
that it has taken and called its own. He believes art belongs with
its creators, so when a Chinese corporation offers him a (highly
illegal) chance to reclaim five priceless sculptures, it's
surprisingly easy to say yes. Will's crew, fellow students chosen
out of his boundless optimism for their skills and loyalty, aren't
exactly experienced criminals. Irene is a public policy major at
Duke who can talk her way out of anything; Daniel is pre-med with
steady hands and dreams of being a surgeon. Lily is an engineering
student who races cars in her spare time; and Will is relying on
Alex, an MIT dropout turned software engineer, to hack her way in
and out of each museum they must rob. Each student has their own
complicated relationship with China and the identities they've
cultivated as Chinese Americans, but one thing soon becomes
certain: they won't say no. Because if they succeed? They earn an
unfathomable ten million each, and a chance to make history. If
they fail, they lose everything . . . and the West wins again.
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