Help us grow the book club so we can support more books written by Asian diaspora authors! This podcast is part of Potluck: An Asian American Podcast CollectiveĪfter 6 and a half years, Books & Boba has started a Patreon! Our little podcast has been a wonderful labor of love and we’ve been proud of the book discussions and author chats that we’ve been able to bring to you all, but we want to do more! We’ve got big dreams for Books & Boba and so we’re asking our community for support. The Books & Boba May 2022 pick is Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo *Support the podcast by purchasing books at our bookshop * We discuss the book's themes of diaspora and reclaiming culture, as well as dive into how heisty this heist book turned out to be. Li, a story about 5 Chinese American college students who form a heist crew to steal back stolen Chinese art from western museums. But when a mysterious Chinese benefactor 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.On this episode, we discuss our May 2022 pick is Portrait of a Thief by Grace D. Will Chen plans to steal them back.A senior at Harvard, Will fits comfortably in his carefully curated roles: a perfect student, an art history major and sometimes artist, the eldest son who has always been his parents? American Dream. 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. Ocean?s Eleven meets The Farewell in Portrait of a Thief, a lush, lyrical heist novel inspired by the true story of Chinese art vanishing from Western museums about diaspora, the colonization of art, and the complexity of the Chinese American identity.History is told by the conquerors. Ebook/PDF Portrait of a Thief DOWNLOAD in English is available for free here, Click on the download LINK below to download Ebook After You 2020 PDF Download in English by Jojo Moyes (Author).ĭownload Link : Portrait of a Thief If you want to download free Ebook, you are in the right place to download Ebook. LiĮbook PDF Portrait of a Thief | EBOOK ONLINE DOWNLOAD (PDF Download) Portrait of a Thief By Grace D.

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