It's 2052, and the world is running out of timebut Stevie Henry doesn't know that yet.
Stevie is just trying to save enough money for college before summer ends. That's how she ended up working at the gift shop in the art museum. The world around her is in a cycle of drought and superstorms, ice and fire. . .but people get by.
Then a new intern named Adam shows up. Charming, mysterious, and evasive about his pasthes a perfect distraction. Except he claims he's traveled back from the year 2201 to save priceless art from an impending catastrophe.
Stevie doesn't believe him. Not at first.
When the signs Adam described start coming trueand the people she loves most are pulled into dangershe has to decide how far she'll go to protect her family when the future itself is warning her that nothing will be the same.
Blending time travel, climate fiction, and Indigenous futurism, The Art Thieves is a gripping, emotionally charged novel from Walter Award-winning author Andrea L. Rogers. Perfect for readers of Nnedi Okorafor, Angeline Boulley, and Octavia Butler, this is a story about what we choose to hold onto (and fight for) when the world as we know it starts to unravel.
T H E M E S
Read this if you are interested in:
Climate fiction ? Eco-dystopia ? Indigenous futurism ? Time travel ? Family & sacrifice ? Cultural preservation ? Art history ? Hopeful futures
P R A I S E
The Art Thieves is a book that is both exciting to read and deeply thoughtful about our reality as well as the larlĂG