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The leavers

  • Lisa Ko

3.50

2 ratings

"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"--

Genres

  • Deportation
  • Illegal aliens
  • Mothers and sons
  • Children of illegal aliens
  • Self-actualization (Psychology)
  • Fiction
  • Mothers and sons, fiction
  • Fiction, family life
  • Chinese americans, fiction
  • Fiction, cultural heritage
  • New York Times reviewed
  • Children of illegal aliens -- Fiction
  • Mothers and sons -- Fiction
  • Illegal aliens -- Fiction
  • Deportation -- Fiction
  • Self-actualization (Psychology) -- Fiction
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About the author

  • Lisa Ko

    3.50

    2 ratings · 3 works

Editions

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    Highbridge Audio and Blackstone Publishing

    Mar 01, 2021

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    Highbridge Audio and Blackstone Publishing

    Mar 01, 2021

  • Edition cover

    HighBridge Audio

    May 02, 2017

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    Algonquin Books

    Apr 24, 2018

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First edition.

Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill

2017

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    Perfection Learning Corporation

    2018

  • Edition cover

    Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill

    2017

  • Edition cover

    Little, Brown Book Group Limited

    2017

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    Little, Brown Book Group Limited

    2014

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    Thorndike Press

    2017