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The leavers : a novel / Lisa Ko.

By: Publisher: Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Edition: First editionDescription: 338 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781616206888
  • 1616206888
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PS3611 .O135 L43 2017
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"-- Provided by publisher.
Holdings
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Book Book NMC Library Stacks PS3611 .O135 L43 2017 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001406569

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

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