The Leavers
A Novel
Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2017.
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: 338 pages ; 24 cm
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
Subjects:
Illegal immigration -- Fiction.
Mothers and sons -- Fiction.
Noncitizens -- Fiction.
Deportation -- Fiction.
Self-actualization (Psychology) -- Fiction.
Children of noncitizens -- Fiction.
Illegal immigration -- Fiction.
Mothers and sons -- Fiction.
Noncitizens -- Fiction.
Deportation -- Fiction.
Self-actualization (Psychology) -- Fiction.
Children of noncitizens -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9781616208042
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"Published simultaneously in Canada by Thomas Allen & Son Limited."