![]() ![]() Even after Big Eric’s arrest, the lives of everyone around Fee-his crush Peter, his fuck buddy Zach, his friend Freddie-are the way they are because of their choir days. ![]() Everything happened as the butterfly effect of the boys choir director Big Eric molesting at least twelve boys, Fee being one of them. ![]() I picked up this book because it’s queer and Asian, and I expected it to be sad and disturbing but I didn’t know it would also be beautiful in both the writing and the perverseness of the characters.Įdinburgh consists of three parts: when Fee (biracial Korean American) was a boy, when Warden was fifteen, and when Fee was about thirty. ![]() Edinburgh was published the same year the original The Boston Globe’s “spotlight” team started the investigation (2001), way before the team won a Pulitzer Prize for it (2003). It reminded me of the biographical movie Spotlight in the sense that both instances of church-related child molestation happened on the East Coast around the same time. The central theme of the book is pedophilia. Genre: Historical Fiction, Literary FictionĬlick on the cover for my review on Goodreads.Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc., January 29th 2019 (first published October 16th 2001).EDINBURGH by Alexander Chee, read by Daniel K. ![]()
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