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The Good Thief by Hannah Tinti

Hannah Tinti’s first novel, “The Good Thief,” opens at a Catholic orphanage in New England, where the statue of St. Anthony in the courtyard can’t help the boys recover what they’ve lost. Ren, the book’s hero, is missing not only his family but also his left hand, the skin mysteriously sewn up at the wrist. Passed over for adoption because of the lost hand, Ren begins stealing small objects as recompense.

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