In The Art Thieves, Walter Award-winner and citizen of the Cherokee Nation Andrea L. Rogers (Man Made Monsters) returns with a stirring story about choosing to create a new future when disaster seems inevitable.
The world is ending; or at least, that's what it seems like to Stevie who, along with the rest of the planet, is experiencing "a cycle of drought and super-storms." Stevie, a Cherokee teenager living in Texas, works at an art museum. At the museum, Stevie meets artist intern Adam, a Costa Rican woodcarver who admits to her that he is from "seven generations in the future." He "was raised with one purpose," he says: "To make the future better."
Rogers's sophomore YA novel skillfully discusses the current affairs, pop culture, and climate change-related extreme weather events of the future, powerfully relating them to historical and contemporary legacies of racism and oppression. This provocative and insightful work of Cherokee futurism projects and imagines the kinds of decisions and personal sacrifices people might need to make to improve the world. --Michelle Anya Anjirbag, freelance reviewer