Portrait of a Thief by Grace D. Li is an art heist book. Will Chen, a Harvard art history major, is hired to steal back stolen Chinese artifacts from museums. Will gathers his crew and they risk it all to return these stolen art pieces back to their rightful owners and get paid fifty million dollars.
Age of Vice by Deepti Kapoor starts with a deadly car crash with a poor servant at the wheel of his rich employer's car. The rest of the story is told through multiple POVs including the driver, a journalist, and a rich playboy. The book shows the drastically different lives Indians can live within the same city and how they can all meet in a devastating accident.
A Place For Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza is told through alternating perspectives of an Indian Muslim American family The story starts at one of the daughter's weddings and the unexpected arrival of their estranged brother. The story then weaves through flashbacks and the present day to show the reader how the family's relations became so complicated.
The Incendiaries by R. O. Kwon is told from three perspectives Will, Phoebe, and John. Will is a college student, who falls in love and becomes obsessed with Phoebe. Phoebe a fellow student and girlfriend of Will, is struggling with the guilt she feels over her mother's death. John is a charismatic cult leader. Phoebe becomes involved with John's cult until the group commits an act of terror and she disappears. Will makes it his mission to find Phoebe and figure out if she was involved in the cult's acts of violence.
The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff starts when Geeta's husband walks out and never returns, but the rumor in the village is that she killed him. Geeta then decides to turn this rumor into a business once unhappy wives start coming to her for help in getting rid of their bad husbands. While this book is filled with dark humor, it also takes more serious issues such as domestic violence, the caste system, and gender inequality.
If I Had Your Face by Frances Cha focuses on four women in Seoul, South Korea living in the same apartment building. These women are from different parts of society, but all go up against the same societal issues plaguing women in South Korea. They have to face sexism, unattainable beauty standards, classism, and misogyny. The novel focuses on the friendships between these women and who the how they choose to live and survive in their society.
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