Standalone Novels
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| Portrait of a Thief | 2022 | Buy |
Grace D. Li made her debut with Portrait of a Thief (2022), a heist novel with a sharp cultural edge. The book follows five Chinese American college students recruited to steal Chinese artifacts from major Western museums, raising questions about who owns cultural heritage and what it means to take it back.
The novel blends the fun of a heist plot with serious questions about colonialism, identity, and the art world. Li draws on real debates about the repatriation of looted cultural objects, wrapping them in a fast-paced story about young people who decide that stealing might be the most moral option available to them.