{"product_id":"for-today-i-am-a-boy-9780544538528","title":"For Today I Am a Boy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublishing Triangle's Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction, Winner \u003cbr\u003e 2015 PEN\/ Hemingway Award, Finalist \u003cbr\u003e Lambda Literary Award, Finalist \u003cbr\u003e Longlisted for the 2014 Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize \u003cbr\u003e A Barnes \u0026amp; Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection for Spring 2014 \u003cbr\u003e A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice \u003cbr\u003e Shortlisted for the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\" A] sharply written debut...A coming-of-age tale for our time.\" --\u003ci\u003eSeattle Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eAt 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Sensitively wrought . . . \u003ci\u003eFor Today I Am a Boy\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\" --\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Subtle and controlled, with flashes of humor and warmth.\"\u003cb\u003e --\u003ci\u003eSlate \u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Keeps you reading. Told in snatches of memory that hurt so much they have the ring of truth.\"\u003cb\u003e --\u003ci\u003eBust \u003c\/i\u003emagazine\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Mariner Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/10\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780544538528\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.80d","brand":"Kim Fu","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36638480597148,"sku":"9780544538528","price":12.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_3fc2b3b8-95be-4574-8b02-6e5e9ce4e9e0.jpg?v=1603847392","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/for-today-i-am-a-boy-9780544538528","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}