Mariner Books</br></br>Product Description</br></br><DIV><DIV><P><B>Publishing Triangle's Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction?? Winner<BR /> 2015 PEN/ Hemingway Award?? Finalist<BR /> Lambda Literary Award?? Finalist<BR /> Longlisted for the 2014 Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize<BR /> A Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection for Spring 2014<BR /> A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice<BR /> Shortlisted for the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize</B><BR /><BR /><B>" sharply written debut...A coming-of-age tale for our time." ?<I>Seattle Times</I></B></P><BR />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 father??s dreams of Western masculinity. Peter and his sisters grow up in an airless house of order and obligation?? though secrets and half-truths simmer beneath the surface.