Grace D. Li on PORTRAIT OF A THIEF
\u201cI really wrote it for me, I didn't think anything would come about \u2014 I wanted something that could bring me a bit of joy, where Asian American characters could live their lives and do something as fun and ridiculous as robbing art museums across the world.\u201d Grace D. Li loves a caper flick, and now she\u2019s written\xa0Portrait of a Thief, a caper novel with a very fun Chinese American cast. Grace joins us on the show to talk about the true story that inspired her debut, the Chinese diaspora, calling Texas home, the movies that inspired her fiction, the books she\u2019s reading and recommending now, being a medical student who writes fiction on the side, and much more with Poured Over\u2019s host, Miwa Messer. And we end the episode with a TBR Topoff segment featuring Margie and Marc.
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Featured Books:
Portrait of a Thief\xa0by Grace D. Li
Chemistry\xa0by Weike Wang
Joan is OKAY\xa0by Weike Wang
The Swimmers\xa0by Julie Otsuka
Searching for Sylvie Lee\xa0by Jean Kwok
Fault Lines\xa0by Emily Itami
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Poured Over is produced and hosted by Miwa Messer and mixed by Harry Liang. Follow us here for new episodes Tuesdays and Thursdays (with occasional bonus episodes on Saturdays).
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A full transcript of this episode is available\xa0here.