Join us and local Queens author, Wendy Lee, for the launch of her new novel, The Art of Confidence.
The Art of Confidence is an intricate, multilayered novel that explores forgery, great art, and the lengths to which some are driven to create it – and to possess it. Lee’s novel opens with Liu Qingwu, an artist desperate to sell a painting – something more substantial than the Impressionist knockoffs he flogs to tourists outside New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. But the lucrative commission he receives from a Chelsea art dealer is more complicated than he initially realizes. Liu has been hired to create, not an homage to Andrew Cantrell’s modernist masterpiece, but a forgery that will sell for millions.
Wendy Lee is the author of the novels Across a Green Ocean and Happy Family, which was named one of the top ten debuts of 2008 by Booklist and received an honorable mention from the Association of Asian American Studies. A graduate of New York University’s Creative Writing Program, she has worked as a book editor and an English teacher in china. She lives in Queens, New York.