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Read By: Daniel K. Isaac, Josh Hurley Publisher: Blackstone Publishing Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 5.50 hours at 1.5x Speed 4.13 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: January 2019 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781982597153

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

85

Longest Chapter Length:

19:17 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

18 seconds

Average Chapter Length:

05:46 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

4

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Publisher Description

Twelve-year-old Fee is a shy Korean American boy and a newly named section leader of the first sopranos in his local boys’ choir. But when Fee learns how the director treats his section leaders, he is so ashamed he says nothing of the abuse, not even when Peter, his best friend, is in line to be next. When the director is arrested, Fee tries to forgive himself for his silence. But when Peter takes his own life, Fee blames only himself. In the years that follow he slowly builds a new life, teaching near his hometown. There he meets a young student who is the picture of Peter and is forced to confront the past he believed was gone.

Told with “the force of a dream and the heft of a life,” Edinburgh marked Chee “as a major talent whose career will bear watching” (Publishers Weekly).

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“A coming-of-age tale in the grand Romantic tradition, where passions run high, Cupid stalks Psyche, and love shares the dance floor with death…A lovely, nuanced, never predictable portrait of a creative soul in the throes of becoming.”

— Washington Post

Quotes

  • “[Chee] says volumes with just a few incendiary words.”

    — New York Times
  • “Haunting…complex…sophisticated. [Chee] says volumes with just a few incendiary words.”

    — New York Times Book Review
  • “The best new novelist I’ve read in some time. Edinburgh is moody, dramatic—and pure.”

    — Edmund White, author of The White Road
  • “Arresting…profound and poetic…Chee’s voice is worth listening to.”

    — San Francisco Chronicle
  • “Few coming-of-age novels truly stir one’s emotions or lead readers to consider the trauma of their own lives. Edinburgh does both.”

    — Newsday

Awards

  • A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year
  • Winner of the Lambda Literary Award
  • Winner of a Michener-Copernicus Fellowship

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About Alexander Chee

Alexander Chee is the author of the novels The Queen of the Night and Edinburgh and the acclaimed essay collection How to Write An Autobiographical Novel. He is a contributing editor at the New Republic, an editor-at-large at Virginia Quarterly Review, and a critic-at-large at the Los Angeles Times. His work has appeared in The Best American Essays 2016, the New York Times Magazine, Slate, Guernica, and Tin House, among others. He is an associate professor of English at Dartmouth College.

About the Narrators

Daniel K. Isaac was born on December 5, 1988 in Fullerton, California. He is an actor and writer, known for Billions, Money Monster, and Too Big to Fail.

Josh Hurley is an actor, improviser, AudioFile Earphones Award–winning narrator, and writer. His audiobook credits include Saving Lucas Biggs and Where Things Come Back. He lives in New York.