The Leavers

Author(s): Lisa Ko

Fiction

Winner of the 2016 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged FictionOne morning, Deming Guo's mother, an undocumented Chinese immigrant, goes to her job at a nail salon and never comes home. Set in New York and China, The Leavers is a vivid examination of borders and belonging. It's the story of how a boy comes into his own when everything he loves is taken away, and how a mother learns to live with her mistakes.

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One of 2017's most anticipated fiction debuts... The winner of last year's PEN/Bellwether Prize, which recognizes fiction that explores issues of social justice, The Leavers feels as relevant as ever as the future of immigrants in America hangs in the balance * Time.com * Consider this book a must-read: They may be fictional, but these characters have a lot to teach us about the difficulties of belonging and the plight of illegal immigrants * Marie Claire * Ambitious . . . Lisa Ko has taken the headlines and has reminded us that beyond them lie messy, brave, extraordinary, ordinary lives * New York Times Book Review * Here is imperative reading: a vivid fictional exploration of what it means to belong and what it feels like when you don't . . . Ko gives us an unsparing portrait of the resilience and grit it takes to risk everything to break free of tradition and start over in a foreign land * O, The Oprah Magazine (Favourite Books of 2017) * There was a time I would have called Lisa Ko's novel beautifully written, ambitious, and moving, and all of that is true, but it's more than that now: if you want to understand a forgotten and essential part of the world we live in, The Leavers is required reading * Ann Patchett *

Lisa Ko's fiction has appeared in Best American Short Stories 2016, Apogee Journal, Narrative, Copper Nickel, the Asian Pacific American Journal, and elsewhere. She has been awarded fellowships and residencies from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the MacDowell Colony, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Writers OMI at Ledig House, the Jerome Foundation, and Blue Mountain Center, among others. She was born in New York City, where she now lives. Visit her at lisa-ko.com.

General Fields

  • : 9780349700526
  • : Dialogue Books
  • : Dialogue Books
  • : 0.324
  • : March 2018
  • : 198mm X 126mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : April 2018
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Lisa Ko
  • : Paperback
  • : 1
  • : English
  • : 813.6
  • : 416