The Leavers By Lisa Ko fiction contemporary China adult Asia social justice book prize winner

The Leavers By Lisa Ko fiction contemporary China adult Asia social justice book prize winner

The book is new, is a paperback book and has 406 pages

******ABOUT THE BOOK*****

One morning, Deming Guos mother, an undocumented Chinese immigrant named Polly, goes to her job at the nail salon and never comes home. No one can find any trace of her.

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. They rename him Daniel Wilkinson in their efforts to make him over into their version of an all-American boy. But far away from all hes ever known, Daniel struggles to reconcile his new life with his mothers disappearance and the memories of the family and community he left behind.

Set in New York and China, The Leavers is a vivid and moving examination of borders and belonging. Its the story of how one boy comes into his own when everything hes loved has been taken away--and how a mother learns to live with the mistakes of her past.

This powerful debut is the winner of the 2016 PEN/Bellwether Prize for fiction, awarded by Barbara Kingsolver for a novel that addresses issues of social justice.