"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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ISBN:1616206888
ISBN:9781616206888
Physical Description:338 pages
Edition:First edition.
Publisher:Chapel Hill, North Carolina :Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill,2017.
Awards Note:
PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction, 2016