How to Write an Autobiographical Novel

Chee grew up Korean American, gay, in a world that had no language for either with any grace. These essays move across his life — learning to write, losing friends to AIDS, becoming a gardener, teaching, politics, identity — with the precision of a writer who has spent decades learning to see clearly. The most important Asian American queer essay collection ever written. Not a how-to guide despite the title — a series of dispatches about what it costs and what it means to make art from your own life, and what autobiography actually is when your life has been shaped by forces most people pretend don't exist.