The Godivas gave this a thumbs down because of the quality of the writing but I thought it sounded just like a bunch of twenty year olds fumbling through life. Five Chinese-American students are convinced to pull off the theft of five bronze figures from five different museums and return them to China. Of couse you base your plan on watching Oceans Eleven. You're in your twenties and muddling through all kinds of conflicting thoughts about your hyphenated place in the world, your future, colonialism, sex. Oceans Eleven seems reasonable. Each character shares their private woes and insights in a separate chapter so there is a lot of repetiton of events but I thought the ending was a brilliant way to make it all work out. Li was a Standford medical student when she wrote this so I assume she could have leaned in on the dense, complicated theme of colonial ownership but this was a much truer voice and more accessible read.
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