The leavers
Subtitle: a novel
By: Lisa Ko
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9781616206888
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Deportation; Illegal aliens; Mothers and sons; Children of illegal aliens; Self-actualization (Psychology); Fiction
Description: "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"--
Notes: "Published simultaneously in Canada by Thomas Allen & Son Limited."