"A coming-of-age novel in the grand Romantic tradition, where passions run high, Cupid stalks Psyche, and love shares the dance floor with death . . . A lovely, nuanced, never predictable portrait of a creative soul in the throes of becoming." -The Washington Post Book World

"Edinburgh has the force of a dream and the heft of a life. And Alexander Chee is a brilliant new writer."-Annie Dillard

"Alexander Chee gets my vote for the best new novelist I've read in some time. Edinburgh is moody, dramatic-and pure." -Edmund White

"Haunting . . . complex . . . sophisticated . . . [Chee] says volumes with just a few incendiary words." -The New York Times Book Review

"Chee describes [Fee's] desperate adolescent moments with heartbreaking clarity and grace . . . Few coming-of-age novels truly stir one's emotions or lead readers to consider the traumas of their own lives. Edinburgh does both." -Newsday