That experience and a racist encounter with cops investigating the crime propel Chen to reach out to the chief executive of a shadowy Chinese government-backed conglomerate. The novel’s main character, Will Chen, is a Harvard art history student who witnesses the theft of Chinese artifacts from a campus museum by an organized team that leaves him an intriguing calling card. The premise of “Portrait of a Thief” is deceptively simple.
“Despite the differences between medicine and writing,” she says during a recent conversation, “both require thinking deeply and thoughtfully about the world and the people in it.”
And the past she thought she’d left behind? It’s been following her more closely than she ever could have imagined.Ī gripping page-turner, as well as a sensitive exploration of mental health, Liar, Dreamer, Thief is an intimate portrayal of life in all its complexities-and the dangers inherent in unveiling people’s most closely guarded secrets.The story of why Li turned to fiction in a crisis - and pursued two seemingly opposing career paths - has as many twists and turns as Li’s novel, born from her experiences as a scientist and writer, American-born and ethnically Chinese.įor Li, who starts her third year in medical school this summer, her career choices aren’t contradictory. Horrified, Katrina combs through the clues she’s collected about Kurt over the last three years, but each revelation uncovers a menacing truth: for every moment she was watching him, he was watching her. Before he jumps, he slams her with a devastating accusation: his death is all her fault.
Driven by compulsion, she enacts the most powerful ritual she has to reclaim control-a midnight visit to the Cayatoga Bridge-and arrives just in time to witness Kurt’s suicide. Her obsession with her co-worker, Kurt, is just one of many coping mechanisms-like her constant shape and number rituals, or the way scenes from her favorite children’s book bleed into her vision whenever she feels anxious or stressed.īut when Katrina finds a cryptic message from Kurt that implies he’s aware of her surveillance, her tenuous hold on a normal life crumbles.
Katrina Kim may be broke, the black sheep of her family, and slightly unhinged, but she isn’t a stalker.
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