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The leavers : a novel / Lisa Ko.

Ko, Lisa, (author.).

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" -- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781616206888 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: 338 pages ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2017.
Subject: Children of illegal aliens > Fiction.
Mothers and sons > Fiction.
Illegal aliens > Fiction.
Deportation > Fiction.
Self-actualization (Psychology) > Fiction.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at South Interlake Regional Library.

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  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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