The novel’s main character, Will Chen, is a Harvard art history student who witnesses the theft of Chinese artifacts from a campus museum by an organized team that leaves him an intriguing calling card. The premise of “Portrait of a Thief” is deceptively simple. “Despite the differences between medicine and writing,” she says during a recent conversation, “both require thinking deeply and thoughtfully about the world and the people in it.” The story of why Li turned to fiction in a crisis - and pursued two seemingly opposing career paths - has as many twists and turns as Li’s novel, born from her experiences as a scientist and writer, American-born and ethnically Chinese.įor Li, who starts her third year in medical school this summer, her career choices aren’t contradictory.
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