"I really wrote it for me, I didn't think anything would come about — 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." Grace D. Li loves a caper flick, and now she's written Portrait 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's reading and recommending now, being a medical student who writes fiction on the side, and much more with Poured Over's host, Miwa Messer. And we end the episode with a TBR Topoff segment featuring Margie and Marc.
Featured Books:
Portrait of a Thief by Grace D. Li
Chemistry by Weike Wang
Joan is OKAY by Weike Wang
The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka
Searching for Sylvie Lee by Jean Kwok
Fault Lines by Emily Itami
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).
A full transcript of this episode is available here.