The leavers : a novel /

"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...

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Main Author:	Ko, Lisa (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2017.
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Children of illegal aliens > Fiction. Mothers and sons > Fiction. Illegal aliens > Fiction. Deportation > Fiction. Self-actualization (Psychology) > Fiction. Children of illegal aliens. Deportation. Illegal aliens. Mothers and sons. Self-actualization (Psychology) Chinese Americans > Fiction. Fiction.