Set mostly in Rosarita Bay, a fictional coastal town near San Francisco, this debut collection from the editor of the literary journal Ploughshares
traces the lives (usually the romantic lives) of a motley assortment of male protagonists. Lee...
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Don Lee, Author . Norton $24.95 (315p) ISBN 978-0-393-05812-3
Ploughshares
editor Lee uses the racial homogeneity of Japan as a stark backdrop to this elegant first novel, a follow-up to his story collection, Yellow
. Set in Tokyo in 1980, the book centers on the disappearance of Lisa Countryman, a half-Japane
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Don Lee, Author W. W. Norton & Company $23.95 (333p) ISBN 978-0-393-06232-8
The trick to reading Don Lee's wonderfully silly second novel (after Country of Origin and a story collection, Yellow) is to take nothing seriously, even when you should. The book concerns the eccentric sculptor-turned-brussels sprout farmer, Lyndon
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Don Lee. Norton, $25.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-393-08321-7
Lee (Yellow) usually writes about pairs of men—brothers, friends, cops, writers, often polar opposites—but here develops a mixed triad, as narrator Eric Cho and the tyrannical Joshua Yoon, both aspiring novelists, befriend dormmate Jessica Tsai, a...
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Don Lee. Norton, $26.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-393-60881-6
Lee’s well-written but uninspiring fifth book (after The Collective) follows Yadin Park and Jeanette Matsuda, residents of Rosarita Bay, Calif., as they enter middle age. Yadin, retired from a career as an alt-country singer/songwriter, installs...
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Don Lee. Akashic, $27.95 (296p) ISBN 978-1-63614-031-5
Korean American writer Lee (Lonesome Lies Before Us) delivers a stylish set of erotic stories. His characters are Asian Americans who wrestle with estrangement from their homelands, alienation in the United States, and a longing for intimacy in a...
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