Kim Fu’s For Today I Am a Boy is the winner of the Publishing Triangle’s Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction! This is now the latest in a long list of accolades the novel has received since it was first published in 2014.
Last month, Kim was announced as one of the finalists for the Pen Hemingway award, whose jury citation read: "An unflinching observer of personal history, family history and beyond, Kim Fu writes with a pen as sharp and precise as a lancet. For Today I Am a Boy is a novel about gender, race, immigrant life, but it does not let itself be pigeon-holed, just as its protagonist refuses to be defined. A fiercely beautiful novel, the book is the perfect testimony to the fact that no one knows the last word about any human heart."
On top of this, For Today I Am a Boy is shortlisted for the upcoming Lambda Literary Awards, and since its publication it has been chosen as a Barnes & Noble ‘Discover Great New Writers’ program and a university reading programme, was shortlisted for the Canadian Authors Association Emerging Writer Award, longlisted for the Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize and for Canada Reads 2015, and was named a New York Times Editor’s Choice.
For Today I Am a Boy is published in Australia by Random House, in Canada by HarperCollins, and in the US by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.