For Today I Am a Boy
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.54 (705 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0544538528 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-06-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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I want to be pretty like you.” Though he continues to want to be a woman, he learns to mask his feelings as he grows up and endures failed relationships with two women. Only when he’s alone, locked in his apartment, does he put on makeup and don dresses. --Michael Cart . In a larger sense, she examines what it means to be a woman when, like Peter, you’re born a man. An interesting, thought-provoking novel. Today he is a boy, but tomorrow? In her episodic first novel, Canadian author Fu does an excellent job of conveying the desperation of one trapped in the wrong body as well as the confusion and frustration of that condition. Then he meets John, a charismatic, cheerful, female-to-male transgender, who challenges Peter to be himself, calling him a coward when he continues to resist. From Booklist Peter’s Chinese name may be Juan Chaun (“Powerful King“), but when he is in the first grade, he declares, “I want to
Peter and his sisters grow up in an airless house of order and obligation, though secrets and half-truths simmer beneath the surface. 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"A sharply written debutA coming-of-age tale for our time." —Seattle TimesAt 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. He knows he is really a girl. Though his father crowned him “powerful king,” Peter knows otherwise. 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&
Unique Novel Interesting exploration of transgender issue.. Jessica Y said For Today I Am a Boy. I’ll be honest. I was hooked in by the cover design, which is gorgeous. (It looks even more beautiful in person.) When I read the description, I thought — I’ve got to read this. I read For Today I Am a Boy on a three hour train ride. When I got off the train, I still had the last quarter of the book to go, so I walked about the city in a daze, still reading.For Today I Am a Boy matches its cover — it’s beautifully written and utterly heartbreaking. The story of Peter’s life, from her childhood to her thirties, is told in a series of memories, conversations, and moments all woven together. While far fr. Great story of a great journey This is one of those books that you could borrow from your library, or from a friend, but you will likely need to buy your own copy since there are so many passages that are either so wise, so funny, or so meaningfully touching that you will need to use your pencil in order to happily jot checkmarks, brackets, and asterisks throughout the book. I know that I did.David Hays has a surfeit of academic, personal, and professional accomplishments. In his sixties, he was semi-retired, kids grown, had good health and a happy family life. His mind is unquestioningly fertile (yet organized) and he seems to embrace new experiences. As a child he