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sbelasco40 's review for:
Portrait of a Thief
by Grace D. Li
I liked this a lot, tho I think the publishers did it a disservice by marketing it as a heist book. It is like 20% heist, 80% meditation on colonialism and displacement and finding your place in a world that rejects you even when you try desperately to meet its expectations. I thought it did a great job on the second front and a less great job on the first, but welcomed how character driven it was while masquerading as a plot-driven thriller. I have not read the reviews here that have dragged down its ratings but I suspect it is a case of people wanting the promised Oceans 11 vibes and not getting them. This is a good book, but a publishing marketing fail.