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The leavers : a novel Cover Image Book Book

The leavers : a novel

Ko, Lisa (author.).

Summary: "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"--

Record details

  • ISBN: 1616206888
  • ISBN: 9781616206888
  • Physical Description: 338 pages ; 24 cm
    regular print
    print
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, [2017]
  • Badges:
    • Top Holds Over Last 5 Years: 1 / 5.0

Content descriptions

General Note:
"Published simultaneously in Canada by Thomas Allen & Son Limited."
Awards Note:
A Junior Library Guild selection (JLG.)
PEN America Literary Award.

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Subject: Children of undocumented immigrants Fiction
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Undocumented immigrants Fiction
Deportation Fiction
Mother-son relationship Fiction
Undocumented immigrants Fiction
Self-realization Fiction
Children of immigrants Fiction
Genre: Bildungsromans.

Available copies

  • 2 of 2 copies available at Blair County Library System. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Altoona Area Public Library.

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  • 0 current holds with 2 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Altoona Area Public Library F KO (Text) 33240004511294 Adult Fiction Available -

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