The leavers
Ko, Lisa2018
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One morning, Deming Guo's mother, an undocumented Chinese immigrant named Polly, goes to her job at the nail salon and never comes home. No one can find any trace of her. With his mother gone, 11-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. They rename him Daniel Wilkinson in their efforts to make him over into their version of an 'all-American boy'. But far away from all he's ever known, Daniel struggles to reconcile his new life with his mother's disappearance and the memories of the family and community he left behind.
Main title:
The leavers / Lisa Ko.
Author:
Ko, Lisa, author
Imprint:
London : Dialogue Books, 2018.
Collation:
400 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: Chapel Hill, North Carolina: Algonquin Books, 2017.
Awards:
Pen America Literary Award Winner
ISBN:
9780349700526 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
813.6
Language:
English
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BRN:
1855810
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