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"Fee, a Korean-American child growing up in Maine, inhabits a fantasy world of spirits and heroes. Gifted with a beautiful soprano voice, Fee sings in a professional boys' choir. When the choir director acts out his pedophilic urges on the boys in the choir, Fee is unable to save himself, his first love, Peter, or his friends - complicit within a silence both inexplicable and growing as each boy succumbs to the molestation. His friendship with Peter deteriorates under the pressures of this mutual silent shame, leaving a hole within him that he cannot fill.". "The choir director is arrested…
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8 editions- Audiobook · English · 2019Blackstone Audio · 1 pages · 9781982597108
- Paperback · English · 2002Picador · 224 pages · 9780312305031
- Hardcover · English · 2001Welcome Rain · 224 pages · 9781566492256
- Other · English · 2018Bloomsbury Publishing Plc · 9781526609137
- Other · English · 2018Bloomsbury Publishing Plc · 240 pages · 9781526609144
- Other · English · 2016Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company · 224 pages · 9780544671874
Adult child sexual abuse victimsChoirboysFictionKorean AmericansGay youthNew York Times reviewedFiction, lgbtq+, gayFiction, gay