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The leavers : a novel / Lisa Ko.
Van Pelt Library PS3611.O135 L43 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ko, Lisa, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Illegal immigration--Fiction.
- Children of noncitizens--Fiction.
- Illegal immigration.
- Deportation.
- Mothers and sons--Fiction.
- Mothers and sons.
- Noncitizens--Fiction.
- Noncitizens.
- Deportation--Fiction.
- Self-actualization (Psychology)--Fiction.
- Self-actualization (Psychology).
- Children of Undocumented immigrants.
- Undocumented immigrants.
- Undocumented immigrants--Fiction.
- Chinese Americans--Fiction.
- Local Subjects:
- Undocumented immigrants--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 338 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2017.
- 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.
- Notes:
- "Published simultaneously in Canada by Thomas Allen & Son Limited."
- PEN America Literary Award winner.
- Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature - Adult Fiction, Winner, 2017-2018
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James A. Crawford Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781616206888
- 1616206888
- OCLC:
- 953599445
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