The Good Thief

Fingersmith meets Deadwood filmic, juicy, dramatic historical fiction of the most delicious kind.

Young Ren is missing his parents and a hand and doesn t know what happened to any of them. So he is beginning to fear that he will never be claimed from his cold New England orphanage: that his dream of a family of a life will come to nothing.
But one day a glamorous stranger arrives at the orphanage. To Ren s astonishment, the charming Benjamin Nab says he is his brother, come to bring him home. And even when his stories grow more and more extraordinary, when he puts Ren s life in danger again and again and sets him first to theft and then to grave-robbing, Ren cannot quite abandon hope. That one day all the hunger and danger and unwanted excitement will be worth it, that he will find a family. But whether Benjamin is to be trusted is another story

About the Author

Hannah Tinti grew up in Salem, Massachusetts. Her work has appeared in publications including 'Story', 'Epoch', 'Alaska Quarterly Review' and 'Best American Mystery Stories 2003'. She earned her M.A. from New York University's Graduate Creative Writing Program and has been awarded residency fellowships from, among others, the New York State Writers Institute. She is currently the editor of 'One Story' magazine.

Previous Books:
Good Thief (TPB, 08/08); Animal Crackers (Bfmt, 03/05).

Other titles by Hannah Tinti

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