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Genre/Form: | Bildungsromans Fiction |
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Material Type: | Fiction, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Lisa Ko |
ISBN: | 9781616206888 1616206888 |
OCLC Number: | 953599445 |
Notes: | "Published simultaneously in Canada by Thomas Allen & Son Limited." |
Awards: | A Junior Library Guild selection (JLG.) PEN America Literary Award. |
Description: | 338 pages ; 24 cm |
Responsibility: | a novel by Lisa Ko. |
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Abstract:
The Leavers is a vivid and moving examination of borders and belonging. It's 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.
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The Leavers is courageous, sensitive, and perfectly of this moment." - Barbara Kingsolver
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