Book
The leavers : a novel
Record details
- ISBN: 9781616208042
- ISBN: 161620804X
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Physical Description:
print
350 pages ; 21 cm - Edition: First paperback edition.
- Publisher: Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2018.
- Copyright: ℗♭2017
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Includes "Readers round table". |
| Awards Note: | National Book Award finalist, 2017 PEN/Bellwether award for socially engaged fiction, 2016 |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Children of illegal aliens Fiction Mothers and sons Fiction Illegal aliens Fiction Deportation Fiction Self-actualization (Psychology) Fiction |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Branch District Library.
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- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quincy Branch | FIC KO (Text) | 35404424209891 | 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"--