For Today I Am a Boy by Kim Fu
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 ReviewSubtle and controlled, with flashes of humor and warmth. Slate
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 as fleeing his parents home. Though his father crowned him powerful king, Peter knows otherwise. He knows he is really a girl. 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.
Keeps you reading. Told in snatches of memory that hurt so much they have the ring of truth. Bust magazine
Kim Fu was born in 1987 and holds a master of fine arts degree from the University of British Columbia. She lives in Seattle.
Fu, Kim: - Kim Fu is the author of For Today I Am a Boy which won the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award, as well as a New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice. Her second novel, The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore, was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award and the OLA Evergreen Award. Fu's writing has appeared in Granta, the Atlantic, the New York Times, Hazlitt, and the TLS. She lives in Seattle.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780544538528 |
| ISBN 10 | 0544538528 |
| Title | For Today I Am a Boy |
| Author | Kim Fu |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Mariner Books |
| Year published | 2015-03-10 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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