The leavers : a novel / Lisa Ko.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Ko, Lisa, author.

Contributor:

• James A. Crawford Memorial Fund.

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

Online:

The James A. Crawford Memorial Fund Home Page