TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ko,Lisa
TI  - The leavers: a novel 
SN  - 9781616206888
AV  - PS3611 .O135 L43 2017
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Chapel Hill, North Carolina
PB  - Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
KW  - Children of undocumented immigrants
KW  - Fiction
KW  - undoc
KW  - Mothers and sons
KW  - Undocumented immigrants
KW  - Deportation
KW  - Self-actualization (Psychology)
KW  - Children of illegal aliens
KW  - fast
KW  - Illegal aliens
N1  - "Published simultaneously in Canada by Thomas Allen & Son Limited."
N2  - "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"--
ER  -