For Today I Am a Boy |
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| Author:
| Fu, Kim |
| ISBN: | 978-1-74275-816-9 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2014 |
| Publisher: | Random House Australia
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| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $32.99 |
Book Description:
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Winner, Edmund White Prize for Debut Fiction. PEN/Hemingway Finalist, shortlisted in the Lambda Literary Awards. Longlisted for the 2014 Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize. Finding one's place in the world can be hard, but sometimes even more elusive, is finding where you fit in your family. Peter Huang and his sisters-elegant Adele, shrewd Helen, and Bonnie the bon vivant
-grow up in a house of many secrets, then escape the confines of small-town Ontario and...
More Description Winner, Edmund White Prize for Debut Fiction. PEN/Hemingway Finalist, shortlisted in the Lambda Literary Awards. Longlisted for the 2014 Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize. Finding one's place in the world can be hard, but sometimes even more elusive, is finding where you fit in your family.
Peter Huang and his sisters-elegant Adele, shrewd Helen, and Bonnie the bon vivant-grow up in a house of many secrets, then escape the confines of small-town Ontario and spread from Montreal to California to Berlin. Peter's own journey is obstructed by playground bullies, masochistic lovers, Christian ex-gays, and the ever-present shadow of his Chinese father.
At birth, Peter had been given the Chinese name juan chaun, powerful king. The exalted only son in the middle of three daughters, Peter was the one who would finally embody his immigrant father's ideal of power and masculinity. But Peter has different dreams- he is certain he is a girl.
Drawing comparisons from Jeffrey Eugenides' Middlesex to the work of Amy Tan. Sensitive, witty, and stunningly assured, Kim Fu's debut novel lays bare the costs of forsaking one's own path in deference to one laid out by others.
For Today I Am a Boy has also been shortlisted for the upcoming Lambda Literary Awards. The novel's long list of accolades include being chosen for the Barnes & Noble 'Discover Great New Writers' program, being shortlisted for the Canadian Authors Association Emerging Writer Award, longlisted for the Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize and for Canada Reads 2015, and being named a New York Times Editor's Choice.