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Author Ko, Lisa, author.

Title The leavers : a novel / Lisa Ko.

Publication Info. Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2017.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 PHS Fiction  RE F Ko    ---  Available
Edition First edition.
Description 338 pages ; 24 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Note "Published simultaneously in Canada by Thomas Allen & Son Limited."
Indexed In: Junior Library Guild
Summary This emotionally harrowing debut novel that explores assimilation and loss, immigration and homeland, independence and connection.
Audience Ages 16 & up.
Grades 11 & up.
870L Lexile.
Study Program Reading Counts HS 5.6 27
Awards A Junior Library Guild selection (JLG)
PEN America Literary Award
Subject Children of noncitizens -- Fiction.
Deportation -- Fiction.
Noncitizens -- Fiction.
Mothers and sons -- Fiction.
Self-actualization (Psychology) -- Fiction.
Deportation -- Fiction.
Noncitizens -- Fiction.
Mothers and sons -- Fiction.
Self-actualization (Psychology) -- Fiction.
Children of immigrants -- Fiction.
Deportation -- Fiction.
Noncitizens -- Fiction.
Mother-son relationship -- Fiction.
Self-realization -- Fiction.
ISBN 9781616206888 (hardcover) : 26.00

 
    
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