Alexander Chee : (2)

" My mother’s family has been in Maine for over 300 years on the same farm. They have a King George III deed. " - Alexander Chee

" The qualities that make parties such a nightmare for people – and also so pleasurable – make them incredibly important inside of fiction. There’s a chaos agent quality to them: You just don’t know who’s going to be there or why. You could run into an old enemy, an old friend, an old friend who’s become an enemy. " - Alexander Chee