“Chau Bradley comes off as a self-aware author, and their work reflects that: many stories feature characters in a blunt, honest light, showing the depths of isolation and mental health issues in an intimate way.”
—Billie Gagné-LeBel, Montreal Review of Books
“Chau Bradley’s writing is shimmering, beautiful, and funny. There’s no question they’re a new writer to watch. I loved this book.”
—Casey Plett, Chatelaine
“Clever and complex.”
—Angela Mazza, Maisonneuve
“[This collection’s] stories are deft even when they are wild … and the dialogue is so keen, so perfectly pitched.”
—S. Bear Bergman, Xtra
“Queer maverick H Felix Chau Bradley’s adventurous debut is what the broken world needs right now … Personal Attention Roleplay is a power to the people collection—daring, propulsive, and fun.”
—Jennifer Tseng, author of Mayumi and the Sea of Happiness
“With an enticing mix of sincerity, irony, and wit, the stories in Chau Bradley’s Personal Attention Roleplay offer brilliant portrayals of deliciously awkward interactions and isolations. No image, no metaphor, is out of place in the mouth of its speaker, and each speaker is a sympathetic (even while, at times, flawed) representation of their generation, community, and culture. The effect is an effortlessly cool book that gifts a welcome shakeup to Asian Canadian lit. To say I’m inspired is an understatement.”
—Jenny Heijun Wills, author of Older Sister. Not Necessarily Related: A Memoir
”Chau Bradley’s first collection is supremely ordinary but that’s its magic, their stories are deeply experiential and in their familiar excess I felt transported into an array of different bodies and moments that make up this time and each ending releasing me into the next set of conditions that puzzle out the almost sci fi specificity of the unexpected world ‘this’ contemporary is. I felt compelled to keep reading being held by an impulse to not be alone today or tonight. Personal Attention Roleplay is a canny and companionable book, actually sweet.”
—Eileen Myles, author of Chelsea Girls
Autaire: H Felix Chau Bradley
Cover art by Marigold Santos
Design: LOKI
