…Alexander Chee’s Edinburgh, fucking incredible son of a bitch...    

                                                                                        — Junot Diaz, over at Austinist


Alexander Chee is the best new novelist I’ve seen in some time. Edinburgh is moody, dramatic—and pure.

                                                                                          — Edmund White


Edinburgh has the force of a dream and the heft of a life. And Alexander Chee is a brilliant new writer.    

                                                                                          — Annie Dillard


Haunting… complex… sophisticated. [Chee] says volumes with just a few incendiary words.   

                                                                                       — The New York Times Book Review


A coming-of-age novel 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.    

                                                                                       — The Washington Post Book World


Chee is a gifted, poetic writer who takes big risks…This novel marks the debut of a major talent whose career will bear watching.   

                                                                                       — Publishers Weekly


A striking debut…A complex story told with skill and intensity, but also filled with moments when agony and extraordinary beauty somehow coexist.    

                                                                                       — Kirkus Reviews


A complex, sophisticated, elegant investigation of trauma and desire - like a white hot flame.   

                                                                                       — Joyce Hackett, in the Guardian UK