by Kim Fu
For Today I Am a Boy is a very ordinary story, told in a gentle and quiet voice. Kim Fu’s novel does not challenge vehemently, like Ghalib Islam’s brash debut or Helen Oyeyemi’s Boy, Snow, Bird. “My father stood on the step and watched with me. It was the fall of my senior year. He held a mug of cof...
In Kim Fu’s vivid debut novel, you learn about the life of Peter Huan, who is the only boy out of his parents four children. But even though Peter is the only boy in the household and his father wants him to grow up and follow in his footsteps at being a strong man, Peter wants nothing more in the w...