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Portrait of a Thief by Grace D. Li
2.0

promising premise but none of the characters felt fully realized or that distinct from one another (speaking as someone who probably would've agreed with these characters in my late teens) and the plot was so unrealistic as to feel lazy. the story also puts forward a lot of ideas only to trail off poetically rather than do anything with them. "because China" does not actually mean anything (again, as someone who used to post that shit on Tumblr)