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Fee, a Korean‑American boy growing up in Maine, lives in a world of spirits and music. Gifted with a soprano voice, he joins a boys’ choir, only to discover the conductor’s predatory abuse. The scandal shatters Fee’s relationship with his first love, Peter, and devastates the choir community. In the aftermath, Peter self‑immolates, another choir member kills himself, and the offender is jailed, yet the damage persists. Fee goes to college, dates men, sometimes engages in sex without love, and contemplates suicide. Surviving these trials, he returns to Maine to teach art and lives with his lover Bridey. When a new student—Warden, the conductor’s son—arrives, Fee confronts the haunting ghosts of abuse, forcing him to face his past and seek healing.
First publish date: 2001
Genre: LGBTQ+ Fiction/Gay Fiction
Authors: Alexander Chee
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