Search Results

For Today I Am a Boy

Download or Read eBook For Today I Am a Boy PDF written by Kim Fu and published by HMH. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
For Today I Am a Boy
Author :
Publisher : HMH
Total Pages : 261
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780544032408
ISBN-13 : 0544032403
Rating : 4/5 (08 Downloads)

Book Synopsis For Today I Am a Boy by : Kim Fu

Book excerpt: A son of Chinese immigrants discovers his true self in a “sharply written debut . . . a coming-of-age tale for our time” (Seattle Times). Publishing Triangle’s Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction, Winner 2015 PEN/ Hemingway Award, 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 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. “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.” —The New York Times Book Review “Subtle and controlled, with flashes of humor and warmth.” —Slate “Keeps you reading. Told in snatches of memory that hurt so much they have the ring of truth.” —Bust


For Today I Am a Boy Related Books

For Today I Am a Boy
Language: en
Pages: 261
Authors: Kim Fu
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-01-14 - Publisher: HMH

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

A son of Chinese immigrants discovers his true self in a “sharply written debut . . . a coming-of-age tale for our time” (Seattle Times). Publishing Triangl
The Centipede Who Couldn't Tie His Shoes
Language: en
Pages: 42
Authors: Karen Dobyns
Categories:
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-05-15 - Publisher: Atlas Publishing

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Ben, a spectacle-wearing centipede, is thrilled to start second grade. Until a sneering grasshopper points out that he¿s the only one still wearing ¿baby shoe
The Jack Davey Story
Language: en
Pages: 288
Authors: Lew Wright
Categories: Davey, Jack Andrew
Type: BOOK - Published: 1961 - Publisher:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Jack Davey's broadcasting career , radio shows and private life.
The Word Burners
Language: en
Pages: 340
Authors: Beryl Fletcher
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002 - Publisher: Spinifex Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Annotation How do you decide how to live? Or do others make that decision for you? In this lyrical novel, award-wining author Beryl Fletcher explores the pardox
Rhyme and Reason
Language: en
Pages: 161
Authors: Neil Harding McAlister
Categories: Poetry
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006 - Publisher: Neil Harding McAlister

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Scroll to top