The leavers : a novel / Lisa Ko.

First edition.

Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2017.

©2017

338 pages ; 24 cm

BEIN Zac K7901 L487 2017: Number line on title page verso indicates first printing: "10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1." Dust jacket.

"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.

English

June 14, 2017

Bildungsromans.

United States North Carolina Chapel Hill.