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The leavers / a novel by Lisa Ko.

By: Material type: TextTextEdition: First editionDescription: 338 pages ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781616206888
  • 1616206888
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 813/.6 23
LOC classification:
  • PS3611.O135 L43 2017
Other classification:
  • FIC043000 | FIC051000 | FIC054000
Awards:
  • A Junior Library Guild selection (JLG.)
  • PEN America Literary Award.
Summary: "One morning, Deming Guo's mother, an undocumented Chinese immigrant named Polly, goes to her job at the nail salon and never comes home. With his mother gone, eleven-year-old Deming is left with no one to care for him. He is eventually adopted by two white college professors who move him from the Bronx to a small town upstate. Set in New York and China, the Leavers is the story of how one boy comes into his own when everything he's loved has been taken away--and how a mother learns to live with the mistakes of her past"--
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"Published simultaneously in Canada by Thomas Allen & Son Limited."

"One morning, Deming Guo's mother, an undocumented Chinese immigrant named Polly, goes to her job at the nail salon and never comes home. With his mother gone, eleven-year-old Deming is left with no one to care for him. He is eventually adopted by two white college professors who move him from the Bronx to a small town upstate. Set in New York and China, the Leavers is the story of how one boy comes into his own when everything he's loved has been taken away--and how a mother learns to live with the mistakes of her past"--

A Junior Library Guild selection (JLG.)

PEN America Literary Award.

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