The leavers
Record details
- ISBN: 9781616206888
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Physical Description:
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338 pages ; 24 cm - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2017.
Content descriptions
General Note: | "Published simultaneously in Canada by Thomas Allen & Son Limited." |
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Subject: | Children of illegal aliens Fiction Mothers and sons Fiction Illegal aliens Fiction Deportation Fiction Self-actualization (Psychology) Fiction |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Branch District Library.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Union Township Branch | FIC KO (Text) | 35406423990264 | Fiction | Available | - |
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"--