Free to Get The Leavers
by Lisa Ko
Overview :
?There was a time I would have called Lisa Ko?s novel beautifully written, ambitious,?and moving, and all of that is true, but it?s more than that now: if you want to understand?a forgotten and essential part of the world we live in, The Leavers is required reading.???Ann Patchett,??author of CommonwealthLisa Ko?s powerful debut, The Leavers,?is the winner of the 2016 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Fiction, awarded by Barbara Kingsolver for a novel that addresses?issues of social justice. ? One morning, Deming Guo?s mother, Polly, an undocumented Chinese immigrant, goes to her job at a nail salon?and never comes home.?No one can find any trace of her.? With his mother gone, eleven-year-old Deming is left mystified and bereft. Eventually adopted by a pair of well-meaning white professors, Deming is moved from the Bronx to a small town upstate and renamed Daniel Wilkinson. But far from all he?s ever known, Daniel struggles to reconcile his adoptive?parents? desire that he assimilate with his
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