For Today I Am a Boy (Hardcover)

from BillieBook

I wanted to love this book, but I never quite connected with Peter. His struggle never really felt strong enough? Deep enough? Something, anyway. When he had suicidal thoughts, I didn't feel that he had gotten that desperate. And, yes, I'm well aware that the trigger for these thoughts and action...

from TheLostEntwife

2014 is the year I've decided to take chances on things I read - to broaden my worldview and learn more about all of the different types of people who share the earth with me, even more than I've done in the past year. In order to do that, I have to also broaden my reading circle and For Today I ...

from gleipnir

The final chapter is what made this three stars instead of two. So many parts felt heavy-handed and over-dramatic, but chapter nine had a bittersweet sort of melancholy that I identified with more than I thought I would.

from LynnB

This is an excellent book. It's well written, with excellent characters and a good story. The writing: well crafted, sparse yet the author conveys great feelings. The story: a Chinese family in small-town Ontario where the father has high expectations for his four children, especially for his onl...

from brangwinn

Debut novel by a Seattleite. Peter is the only son of Chinese immigrants living in eastern Canada. He's never pictured himself as a boy. He's far happier playing with his sisters to the great disgust of his father. As the dysfunctional family disintegrates with his oldest sister moving to Califor...