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Bookmark or Share- The Leavers by Lisa Ko | GoodreadsSet in New York and China, The Leavers is a vivid and moving examination of borders and belonging. It’s 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.
- The Leavers - Lisa KoA vivid and moving examination of borders and belonging, The Leavers is the story of how one boy comes into his own when everything he’s loved has been taken away—and how one woman learns to live with the mistakes of her past.
- The Leavers by Lisa Ko Plot Summary | LitChartsIntro. The Leavers Summary. Next. Chapter 1. The day before she disappears, Polly Guo picks up her son, Deming, from school in the Bronx. On their walk home, she informs him that they’ll be moving to Florida because she’s found a new job.
- The Leavers - WikipediaThe Leavers is Lisa Ko 's first novel, published on May 2, 2017. Background. Ko’s novel was inspired by a 2009 New York Times article describing an undocumented immigrant from Fuzhou, China, who was arrested at a Greyhound station in Florida on her way to a new job and spent a year and a half in detention. [1] Plot.
- Migration, a Makeshift Family, and Then a Disappearance338 pp. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill. $25.95. Should fiction be relevant or timeless? Should it aim to put a human face on issues of the day? And if so, is that enough? Should it do more? Lisa...
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