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For today I am a boy

Peter, the only boy among four siblings born to Chinese immigrants, is convinced he is a girl and must fight the confines of a small town as well as the expectations of his parents to forge his own path into adulthood.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Fu, Kim
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014.
Subjects:	Brothers and sisters > Fiction. Fathers and sons > Fiction. Chinese > Canada > Fiction. Gender identity > Fiction. Psychological fiction > Canada. Coming-of-age fiction.
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Summary:	Peter, the only boy among four siblings born to Chinese immigrants, is convinced he is a girl and must fight the confines of a small town as well as the expectations of his parents to forge his own path into adulthood.
Physical Description:	xiii, 242 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN:	9780544034723 (hardback) 0544034724 (hardback)
Author Notes:	KIM FU is the author of the novel For Today I Am a Boy , which won the Edmund White Award and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award and the Lambda Literary Award, and was a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. Fu is also the author of the poetry collection How Festive the Ambulance . She lives in Seattle, Washington.