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name: Lisa Ko
about: I'm the author of THE LEAVERS, a novel that won the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction and was a finalist for the 2017 National Book Award in Fiction. Set in New York and China, THE LEAVERS follows one young man's search for his mother, an undocumented Chinese immigrant who disappears when he's 11 years old, after which he is adopted by a white family. It's the story of one mother and her son: what brings them together and takes them apart. I'm a believer in the long game: I started writing stories when I was 5 years old and published my first book at 41. Find me on Twitter, learn more about my journey to publication on my website, and check out my PEN Ten interview. I'm the author of THE LEAVERS, a novel that won the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction and was a finalist for the 2017 National Book Award in Fiction. Set in New York and China, THE LEAVERS follows one young man's search for his mother, an undocumented Chinese immigrant who disappears when he's 11 years old, after which he is adopted by a white family. It's the story of one mother and her son: what brings them together and takes them apart. I'm a believer in the long game: I started writing stories when I was 5 years old and published my first book at 41. Find me on Twitter, learn more about my journey to publication on my website, and check out my PEN Ten interview. ...more