Description
When his undocumented Chinese immigrant mother disappears without explanation, eleven-year-old Deming Guo is uprooted from the Bronx and raised by a white academic couple in a small upstate town. As he grows older, he struggles to reconcile his new life with the family, culture, and identity he has lost, while his mother’s story unfolds across continents and years. Moving between New York and China, this poignant novel explores immigration, displacement, belonging, family, and the enduring consequences of separation. Lisa Ko’s debut is an intimate, compassionate portrait of the bonds between mothers and children—and of the complicated search for home.
Available Editions
paperback
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Published Jan 1, 2017
338 pages
ISBN: 9781616206888
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Details
First Published
2017
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for The Leavers by Lisa Ko.