RaveFull Stop\"The book is incredibly generous, exploring Chee’s coming of age as a writer and gay Korean-American, from his childhood in Maine, to his activist days in San Francisco at the height of the AIDS crisis, and his time at the Iowa Writer’s Workshop. He writes about the apartments he has lived and written in, the gardens he’s grown, the mistakes he made while writing his first novel, and the things he’s learned in the years since ... The essay The Autobiography of My Novel takes us on his journey from confusing autobiographical writing with laziness, to realizing it how difficult and dangerous it can be ... Chee’s talent for these kinds of cyclical fragments and tautologies is matched only by his brilliant analogies.\
