The Leavers (Algonquin Books, May 2) by Lisa Ko
Agency: Gersh
Ko's debut novel (winner of the Pen/Bellwether Prize) is a timely immigration-centered tale about a boy whose undocumented Chinese immigrant mother goes to her job at the nail salon and never comes home. After she disappears, the boy is adopted by two white college professors who move him from the Bronx to a small town upstate, and change his name from Deming Guo to Daniel Wilkinson. But Daniel struggles to reconcile his new life with his mother’s disappearance and the life he left behind.
Set in China and New...
Agency: Gersh
Ko's debut novel (winner of the Pen/Bellwether Prize) is a timely immigration-centered tale about a boy whose undocumented Chinese immigrant mother goes to her job at the nail salon and never comes home. After she disappears, the boy is adopted by two white college professors who move him from the Bronx to a small town upstate, and change his name from Deming Guo to Daniel Wilkinson. But Daniel struggles to reconcile his new life with his mother’s disappearance and the life he left behind.
Set in China and New...
- 3/1/2017
- by Andy Lewis,Rebecca Ford
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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