01676cam a2200325 i 4500 771580310 TxAuBib 20171009120000.0 161010s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2016043934 9781616206888 HRD 25.95 1616206888 HRD 25.95 CoCr/DLC eng CoCr rda DLC TxAuBib rda Ko, Lisa, author. The leavers [Book] / a novel by Lisa Ko. First edition. Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2017. 338 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "Published simultaneously in Canada by Thomas Allen & Son Limited.". "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. 20171011. Children of illegal aliens Fiction. Mothers and sons Fiction. Illegal aliens Fiction. Deportation Fiction. Self-actualization (Psychology) Fiction.