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100 1 $aFu, Kim,$d1987-$eauthor.
245 10 $aFor today I am a boy /$cKim Fu.
264 1 $aToronto :$bHarperCollins Canada,$c2014.
300 $axiii, 242 pages ;$c21 cm
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520 1 $aAt birth, Peter Huang is given the Chinese name Juan Chaun, meaning powerful king. He is the exalted only son in a family of daughters, the one who will finally fulfill his father's dreams of Western masculinity. But Peter has different dreams: he knows that he is a girl. Peter 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 father. Sensitive, witty and stunningly assured, Kim Fu's debut novel is a coming-of-age tale like no other, one that lays bare the costs of forsaking one's own path in deference to a road mapped out by others. Both lyrical and unflinching, For Today I Am a Boy shows us an unforgettable struggle: the story of a woman in the body of a Chinese-Canadian man -- and marks the emergence of an astonishing new Canadian literary voice.
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