In literature, Leigh Bardugo’s SIX OF CROWS is brilliantly done, and I’m keeping an eye out for all the exceptional BIPOC heist stories on the horizon, including Adiba Jaigirdar’s A MILLION TO ONE and Andrea Tang’s THE KINGDOM OF WITHOUT. My taste in heist media leans flashy, fun, and self-indulgent think the Ocean’s movies, the entire Fast & Furious franchise, White Collar, Leverage, Lupin. I love this question! I’d like to think I’d make an excellent getaway driver. Author Interview What are some of your favorite heist movies/films/books? What role would you play in a heist? If you’re uncomfortable with that, know you can look up the book on any of the sites below to avoid the link)įind Portrait of a Thief on Goodreads, Amazon, Indiebound, & The Book Depository. For more information you can look at the Policy page. (Disclaimer: Some of the links below are affiliate links. But if they fail, it will mean not just the loss of everything they’ve dreamed for themselves but yet another thwarted attempt to take back what colonialism has stolen. Each member of his crew has their own complicated relationship with China and the identity they’ve cultivated as Chinese Americans, but when Will asks, none of them can turn him down.īecause if they succeed? They earn fifty million dollars-and a chance to make history. A hacker: Alex Huang, an MIT dropout turned Silicon Valley software engineer. A getaway driver: Lily Wu, an engineering student who races cars in her free time. A thief: Daniel Liang, a premed student with steady hands just as capable of lockpicking as suturing. A conman: Irene Chen, Will’s sister and a public policy major at Duke, who can talk her way out of anything. His crew is every heist archetype one can imagine-or at least, the closest he can get. But when a shadowy Chinese corporation reaches out with an impossible-and illegal-job offer, Will finds himself something else as well: the leader of a heist to steal back five priceless Chinese sculptures, looted from Beijing centuries ago. Across the Western world, museums display the spoils of war, of conquest, of colonialism: priceless pieces of art looted from other countries, kept even now.Ī senior at Harvard, Will fits comfortably in his carefully curated roles: a perfect student, an art history major and sometimes artist, the eldest son that has always been his parents’ American Dream.

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