EDINBURGH by Alexander Chee, read by Daniel K. Isaac, Josh Hurley
- Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc., January 29th 2019 (first published October 16th 2001)
- Genre: Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction
- Format: Audiobook
- Page Count: 8 hrs 11 mins (212 pages)
- My Rating: ★★★★ (4/5)
Click on the cover for my review on Goodreads.
Somewhere between a 4- and a 5-star.
The central theme of the book is pedophilia. 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. 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). 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.