Katrina Kim is a broke college dropout estranged from her parents for three years. While stuck in a dead-end job, Katrina adopts some questionable coping mechanisms—obsessing over shapes, numbers, and her colleague Kurt. But when Kurt accuses her of messing everything up, followed by his suicide one night, Katrina must comb through all the clues she's collected about Kurt to solve the mystery and come to a reckoning of her state of mind.

LIAR, DREAMER, THIEF is a suspenseful page-turner that follows an unreliable narrator and a story that had me wondering about the lines between reality and fantasy. I appreciate Dong's beautiful exploration of mental health and family alienation, as well as the references to classical music. While the ending caught me by surprise, and I'm still trying to decide if I like its execution, I enjoyed LIAR, DREAMER, THIEF and thought it an unputdownable story!