Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2017
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
338 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781616206888, 1616206888
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
"Published simultaneously in Canada by Thomas Allen & Son Limited."
"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"--
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PEN America Literary Award winner