For Today I Am A BoyThe debut novel of Kim Futhe PEN Hemingway Award winning author of Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Centuryabout four second generation Chinese sistersone 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 fathers dreams of Western masculinity. Peter

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and takes on various quixotic quests to avoid arriving at the front lines

chemistry between them

public speaking is at best a chore marked by great anxiety and at worst a potential career stopper

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Bishop turns her formidable investigative journalism skills inward to unearth long-simmering class and culture divides in bucolic rural Virginia

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an old flame begins to look mighty tempting