Daniel K. Isaac has narrated 3 audiobooks on Listento.it by 2 authors, with an average listener rating of 5★ across 3 ratings. The most-rated is Edinburgh.
Edinburgh
Summary
Twelve-year-old Fee is a shy Korean American boy and a newly named section leader of the first sopranos in his local boys' choir. But when Fee learns how the director treats his section leaders, he is so ashamed he says nothing of the abuse, not even when Peter, his best friend, is in line to be next. When the director is arrested, Fee tries to forgive himself for his silence. But when Peter takes his own life, Fee blames only himself. In the years that follow, he slowly builds a new life, teaching near his hometown. There he meets a young student who is the picture of Peter and is forced to confront the past he believed was gone. Told with "the force of a dream and the heft of a life," Edinburgh marked Chee "as a major talent whose career will bear watching" (Publishers Weekly). A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year. Winner of the Lambda Literary Award. Winner of a Michener-Copernicus Fellowship.
©2018 Alexander Chee (P)2018 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
Summary
An essay collection exploring his education as a man, writer, and activist - and how we form our identities in life and in art. As a novelist, Alexander Chee has been described as "masterful" by Roxane Gay, "incendiary" by the New York Times, and "brilliant" by the Washington Post. With How to Write an Autobiographical Novel, his first collection of nonfiction, he is sure to secure his place as one of the finest essayists of his generation as well. How to Write an Autobiographical Novel is the author's manifesto on the entangling of life, literature, and politics, and how the lessons learned from a life spent reading and writing fiction have changed him. In these essays, he grows from student to teacher, reader to writer, and reckons with his identities as a son, a gay man, a Korean American, an artist, an activist, a lover, and a friend. He examines some of the most formative experiences of his life and the nation's history, including his father's death, the AIDS crisis, 9/11, the jobs that supported his writing - Tarot-reading, bookselling, cater-waiting for William F. Buckley - the writing of his first novel, Edinburgh, and the election of Donald Trump. By turns commanding, heartbreaking, and wry, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel asks questions about how we create ourselves in life and in art and how to fight when our dearest truths are under attack. A BookRiot Pick of Books to Read If You Love "Pose". An Entertainment Weekly Best Book of the Year (So Far). A Chicago Review of Books Pick of Best of the Year (So Far). A Buzzfeed Best Books of the Year (So Far). A Wired Magazine Pick of Must-Read Summer Titles. An Esquire Magazine Pick of Best Books of 2018 (So Far). A Christian Science Monitor selection of 2018's Most Anticipated Books. A Bustle Pick of Most Anticipated Books of 2018. A Bitch magazine pick of Most Anticipated Nonfiction for 2018. A Pop Sugar Pick of Most Anticipated Upcoming Books. A Paste Magazine Pick of Most Anticipated Books of 2018. A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2018.
©2018 Alexander Chee (P)2018 Blackstone Publishing
The Foreign Student
Summary
Highly acclaimed by critics, The Foreign Student is the story of a young Korean man, scarred by war, and the deeply troubled daughter of a wealthy Southern American family. In 1955, a new student arrives at a small college in the Tennessee mountains. Chuck is shy, speaks English haltingly, and on the subject of his earlier life in Korea he will not speak at all. Then he meets Katherine, a beautiful and solitary young woman who, like Chuck, is haunted by some dark episode in her past. Without quite knowing why, these two outsiders are drawn together, each sensing in the other the possibility of salvation. Moving between the American South and South Korea, between an adolescent girl’s sexual awakening and a young man’s nightmarish memories of war, The Foreign Student is a powerful and emotionally gripping work of fiction.
©2009 Susan Choi (P)2019 Blackstone Audio, Inc.