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"I suppose I did it because I wanted something to show for the thirty years - longer than I had lived in my homeland - that I had been here in America. Something that was properly appreciated, even if someone else got all the credit." Liu Qingwu doesn't set out to commit a crime. He only wants 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, Elegy, but a forgery that will sell for millions. The painting will change the lives of everyone associated with it - Liu, a Chinese immigrant still reeling from his wife's recent departure; Caroline, a gallery owner intent on saving her aunt's legacy; Molly, her perceptive assistant; and Harold, a Taiwanese businessman with an ethical dilemma on his hands.