The Leavers

Published in 2017
352 pages

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Lisa Ko is the author of The Leavers, a novel that won the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction and was a finalist for the 2017 National Book Award in Fiction. She started writing stories when she was 5 years old and published her first book at 41.

What is this book about?
The Leavers follows one young man’s search for his mother, an undocumented Chinese immigrant who disappears when he’s 11 years old, after which he is adopted by a white family. It’s the story of one mother and her son: what brings them together and takes them apart.