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A vivid and moving examination of borders and belonging,The Leavers is the story of how one boy comes into his own when everything he's loved has been taken away—and how one woman learns to live with the mistakes of her past.
About the Author
I'm the author of THE LEAVERS, a novel that won the 2016 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction. Set in New York and China, THE LEAVERS follows one young man's search for his mother, an undocumented Chinese immigrant who disappears when he's 11 years old, after which he is adopted by a white family. It's the story of one mother and her son: what brings them together and takes them apart. Learn more about me and my writing at lisa-ko.com.
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