"One ought to be able to hold in one’s head the simultaneously depressing thought that you’ve wasted your life and that you wouldn’t have wanted it to have gone any other way."
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About Alexander Chee
Alexander Chee is an award-winning Korean American writer known for his works in fiction and non-fiction. He was born in Rhode Island and raised in South Korea, Guam, and Maine. Chee's writing often explores themes of identity, language, and sexuality, drawing from his own experiences as a queer person of mixed heritage.
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