A Year On Earth With Mr. Hell

Photo: Isaac Schell

I found the book so engrossing; I really did read it in one sitting. That’s kind of unheard of from me. It all takes place in a beautiful bubble of privilege, and thank god. It’s glorious to be allowed to enter into it because fuck the rest of our rotten, barren world in this moment.
— Bret Easton Ellis

A Year On Earth With Mr. Hell is a forensic dissection of the author’s intense sexual relationship with a charismatic, frustrating, talented man, and you won’t have read anything quite like it. It’s breathtakingly frank, clear-eyed and gripping. We should all be grateful that Young Kim is able to write about the risks and delights of desire without fear or shame – and in cool prose that avoids the color purple and all shades of grey.
—Nick Hornby

“Sex, fashion, celebrities, travel— in the midst of all this swirling glamour and erotic experimentation is the attentive eye of a discerning young woman.”
— Edmund White