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The leavers
Record details
- ISBN: 9781616207137
- ISBN: 1616207132
- ISBN: 9781616206888
- ISBN: 1616206888
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Physical Description:
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1 online resource. - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2017.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "Published simultaneously in Canada by Thomas Allen & Son Limited." |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Epigraph; Part One; One; Two; Three; Four; Five; Part Two; Six; Seven; Eight; Nine; Ten; Eleven; Twelve; Part Three; Thirteen; Fourteen; Fifteen; Sixteen; Seventeen; Eighteen; Nineteen; Part Four; Twenty; Twenty-One; Acknowledgments |
| Awards Note: | PEN America Literary Award winner |
| Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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| Genre: | Fiction. Electronic books. Downloadable books. |
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Summary:
"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"--
