How to Write an Autobiographical Novel

"How to Write an Autobiographical Novel is not so much a writing primer as a deeply considered memoir; half-European-American and half-Korean-American, Chee writes about coming to terms with his ethnic identity and his painful teens, during which his father died of complications from a car accident. He interrogates a history of childhood sexual abuse, embraces his homosexuality, becomes an activist during the tragic early years of the AIDS epidemic and learns to thrive as a writer and a man. Chee’s language is lyrical and accessible, whimsical and sad, often all at the same time."

"Alexander Chee's "How to Write an Autobiographical Novel" is probably the most recently published thing in the stack, and it's wonderful."