Local launch set for Kim Fu's debut novel, For Today I Am a Boy

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      An easy adolescence is a rare thing, and the passage to adulthood gets even tougher if the person you’re revealing yourself to be during this time doesn’t fit gender conventions, cultural tradition, or parental plans.

      Peter Huang, the main figure in Kim Fu’s debut novel For Today I Am a Boy (HarperCollins), is the only son of a Chinese Canadian family in small-town Ontario, a role with its own pressures. But these are faint compared with what he faces for his certainty that he’s actually a girl trapped in a male body.

      Fu, yet another product of UBC’s dynamic creative-writing program, divides her time between Seattle and her native Vancouver. She’ll be here for the Canadian launch of For Today I Am a Boy, set for the WISE Hall this Saturday evening (January 18). Admission is free, doors are at 7 p.m., and the reading starts at 8, along with music by Francesca Belcourt.

      See kimfu.ca/ for details.

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