For Today I Am a Boy
Fu, Kim
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The debut novel of Kim Fu-the PEN/Hemingway Award-winning author of Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century-about four second-generation Chinese sisters...one of whom happens to be a boy.
At birth, Peter Huang is given the Chinese name Juan Chaun, “powerful king.” To his parents, newly settled in small-town Ontario, he is the exalted only son in a sea of daughters, the one who will finally fulfill his immigrant father's dreams of Western masculinity. Peter and his sisters grow up in an airless house of order and obligation, though secrets and half-truths simmer beneath the surface. At the first opportunity, each of the girls lights out on her own.
But for Peter, escape is not as simple. For although his father crowned him “powerful king,” Peter knows otherwise. For in reality, he was born female-and that part of him is about to break free. With the help of his far-flung sisters and the sympathetic souls he finds along the way, Peter inches ever closer to his own life, his own skin, in this darkly funny, emotionally acute, stunningly powerful debut.
“Sensitively wrought...For Today I Am a Boy is as much about the construction of self as the consequences of its unwitting destruction-and what happens when its acceptance seems as foreign as another country.” -New York Times Book Review
“Subtle and controlled, with flashes of humor and warmth.” -Slate
Publishing Triangle's Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction, Finalist Lambda Literary Award, Finalist Longlisted for the 2014 Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize, A Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection for Spring 2014, A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice Shortlisted for the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize
KIM FU is the author of the novel For Today I Am a Boy, which won the Edmund White Award and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award and the Lambda Literary Award, and was a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. Fu is also the author of the poetry collection How Festive the Ambulance. She lives in Seattle, Washington.
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