The Leavers (National Book Award Finalist): A Novel

The Leavers (National Book Award Finalist): A Novel

FINALIST FOR THE 2017 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION

Named a Best Book of 2017 by NPR, Entertainment Weekly, the Los Angeles Times, BuzzFeed, Bustle, and Electric Literature

â€œThere was a time I would have called Lisa Koâ€™s novel beautifully written, ambitious,Â and moving, and all of that is true, but itâ€™s more than that now: if you want to understandÂ a forgotten and essential part of the world we live in, The Leavers is required reading.â€Â â€”Ann Patchett,â€…author of Commonwealth

Lisa Koâ€™s powerful debut, The Leavers,Â is the winner of the 2016 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Fiction, awarded by Barbara Kingsolver for a novel that addressesÂ issues of social justice.
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One morning, Deming Guoâ€™s mother, Polly, an undocumented Chinese immigrant, goes to her job at a nail salonâ€”and never comes home.Â No one can find any trace of her.Â
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 heâ€™s ever known, Daniel struggles to reconcile his adoptiveÂ parentsâ€™ desire that he assimilate with his memories of his mother and the community he left behind.Â
Told from the perspective of both Danielâ€”as he grows into a directionless young manâ€”and Polly, Koâ€™s novel gives us one of fictionâ€™s most singular mothers. Loving and selfish, determined and frightened, Polly is forced to make one heartwrenching choice after another.Â
Set in New York and China, The Leavers is a vivid examination of borders and belonging. Itâ€™s a moving story of how a boy comes intoÂ his own when everything he loves is taken away, and how a mother learns to live with the mistakes of the past.Â
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Country USA
Manufacturer Algonquin Books
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2017-05-02
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Algonquin Books
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2017-05-02
Format	Kindle eBook

The Leavers (National Book Award Finalist): A Novel

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