03948cam a2200541 4500 529624620 TxAuBib 20211108120000.0 ||||||s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781616207137 1616207132 B01JKHTNCY Amazon a8b06b62-4480-443d-ab55-0e71a09b579f OverDrive (Reserve ID) 2922978 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Ko, Lisa. The Leavers (National Book Award Finalist) [Libby eBook] : A Novel. Algonquin Books, 2017. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 931kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 872kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. fiction about immigration. novels about immigrants. National Book Award. Barbara Kingsolver. Chinese American. Bellwether Prize. asian american. Coming of age. new york city. Assimilation. ann patchett. foster care. Immigration. deportation. Adoption. China. debut. ice . HTML:FINALIST FOR THE 2017 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION Named a Best Book of 2017 by NPR, Entertainment Weekly, the Los Angeles Times, BuzzFeed, Bustle, and Electric Literature “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, author of Commonwealth Lisa Ko’s powerful debut, The Leavers, is the winner of the 2016 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Fiction, awarded by Barbara Kingsolver for a novel that addresses issues of social justice.   One morning, Deming Guo’s mother, Polly, an undocumented Chinese immigrant, goes to her job at a nail salon—and never comes home. No one can find any trace of her.  With his mother gone, eleven-year-old Deming is left mystified and bereft. Eventually adopted by a pair of well-meaning white professors, Deming is moved from the Bronx to a small town upstate and renamed Daniel Wilkinson. But far from all he’s ever known, Daniel struggles to reconcile his adoptive parents’ desire that he assimilate with his memories of his mother and the community he left behind.  Told from the perspective of both Daniel—as he grows into a directionless young man—and Polly, Ko’s novel gives us one of fiction’s most singular mothers. Loving and selfish, determined and frightened, Polly is forced to make one heartwrenching choice after another.  Set in New York and China, The Leavers is a vivid examination of borders and belonging. It’s a moving story of how a boy comes into his own when everything he loves is taken away, and how a mother learns to live with the mistakes of the past.       . Literature. Fiction. Media Type: eBook. National Book Award Finalist. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 17:40:22. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=a8b06b62-4480-443d-ab55-0e71a09b579f&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=a8b06b62-4480-443d-ab55-0e71a09b579f&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=a8b06b62-4480-443d-ab55-0e71a09b579f&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)