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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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill, North Carolina :
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill,
2017.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| 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"-- |
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| Item Description: | "Published simultaneously in Canada by Thomas Allen & Son Limited." |
| Physical Description: | 338 pages ; 24 cm |
| Awards: | PEN America Literary Award winner. |
| ISBN: | 9781616206888 1616206888 |