Portrait of a Thief - The Instant Sunday Times and New York Times Bestseller
By Grace D. Li

"Aand remarkably assuredand debut"and Sunday Times"This is as much a novel asand a reckoning."and New York TimesThe characters areand alluringand and ...and engaging. So too are the emotional struggles the crew endure asand they try to balance duty to family with their love for Chinaand and the need to understand their own personalities."and Literary Review"This is the heist novel we deserve.and Brilliantly twistyand and yet soand contemplativeand [...] this bookand will continue to haunt youand long after you've reached the end."-Jesse Q. Sutanto, author ofand Dial A for Aunties"Portrait of a Thief was everything I imagined and more. The writing feltand close and intimateand and the characters felt like portraits themselves,and bursting with lifeand and delicately human."-Morgan Rogers, author ofand Honey Girl"Grace D. Li is a virtuosic storyteller [...] the most exciting debut I've read this year [...]and an intelligent page-turnerand that will keep you hooked until the very end."-Lauren Wilkinson,and New York Timesand bestselling author ofand American Spy"In thisand 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, butand big dreams, big hearts, enduring friendships, and the multitudes of identities that can exist within each one of us."-Weike Wang, author ofand Chemistry"Aand beautiful examination of identityand as children of the diaspora [...] This fast-paced heist leaves you clutching the pages and rooting for the thieves."-Roselle Lim, author ofand Natalie Tan's Book of Luck and Fortune"Aand lyrical and action-packed taleand of yearning, connection, self-discovery, and righting wrongs,and Portrait of a Thiefand isand a unique vision of what it means to come home."-Delilah S. Dawson,and New York Timesand bestselling author ofand The Violence