For Today I Am A Boy

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 airl...