Edinburgh
By: Alexander Chee
Edition: First Mariner books edition.
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9780544916128
Copyright date: 2001
Subjects: Adult child sexual abuse victims; Choirboys; Fiction; Korean Americans; Gay youth
Description: Twelve-year-old Fee is a shy Korean American boy and a newly named section leader of the first sopranos in his local boy's 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.
Notes: "A novel"--Cover.