"His debut novel is as exciting as his films-raw, passionate and trendy all at once."

- XY Magazine

"Lee captures the passion, urgency and confusion that Ng experiences in bold passages..."

- Asianweek

"Acclaimed filmmaker Quentin Lee's novel, The Secret Diary of Edward Ng, is cinematic, spare, and devastating in its portrayal of a young man in search of his identity. This novel brutally exposes the lonely spaces between family members and lovers as the story moves from Hong Kong and California. Intensely readable and memorable."

- Naomi Hirahara, Edgar Award-winning author of Clark and Division

"The Secret Diary of Edward Ng explores the most universal of themes: Love and Family. In this endearing coming-of-age novel, Quentin Lee gives us a full portrait of a young man's emotional and sexual awakening. It is a story if 1990s Queer Asian life filled with the complexities of AIDS, identity, and full-blown curiosity. A remarkable achievement."

- Noel Alumit, Los Angeles Times bestselling author of Letters to Montgomery Clift

"Quentin Lee's novella is a raw, joyful, irreverent depiction of queer Asian-American youth. From his gleeful opening sentence to its final words, his hero takes us on a breathless ride through the pressures of a Cantonese upbringing, the struggle to define his identity as an Asian-American and a gay man, and the joys and perils life can offer and throw at him. Uncompromising and unapologetic, The Secret Diary of Edward Ng may or may not be autobiographical, but it demands to be read as a unique new voice in Asian-American Literature."

- Adi Tantimedh, author of The Ravi PI Series

"The Secret Diary of Edward Ng is an audacious and clear-eyed portrait of "becoming Gaysian" in the age of AIDS. Lee conjures a cast of fierce and promiscuous Asian American college students-anchored by the irreverent Edward-while spinning a moving coming of age narrative that could only transpire amid the magic mists of the Bay Area."

- David L. Eng, author of Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation