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EdinburghAlexander Chee

Edinburgh

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"Fee, a Korean-American child growing up in Maine, inhabits a fantasy world of spirits and heroes. Gifted with a beautiful soprano voice, Fee sings in a professional boys' choir. When the choir director acts out his pedophilic urges on the boys in the choir, Fee is unable to save himself, his first love, Peter, or his friends - complicit within a silence both inexplicable and growing as each boy succumbs to the molestation. His friendship with Peter deteriorates under the pressures of this mutual silent shame, leaving a hole within him that he cannot fill.". "The choir director is arrested…

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Editions

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FormatPublisherYearPagesISBN
AudiobookBlackstone Audio201919781982597108
EditionBloomsbury Publishing Plc20182409781526609144
EditionBloomsbury Publishing Plc2018—9781526609137
Edition—20162309780544916128
EditionHoughton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company20162249780544671874
PaperbackPicador20022249780312305031
EditionTandem Library2002—9781417706921
HardcoverWelcome Rain20012249781566492256
Adult child sexual abuse victimsChoirboysFictionKorean AmericansGay youthNew York Times reviewedFiction, lgbtq+, gayFiction, gay