The leavers : a novel
(Book)

"Published simultaneously in Canada by Thomas Allen & Son Limited."

Bklst 03/15/2017

LJ 12/01/2016

PW 02/13/2017

Kirkus 02/01/2017

"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.