Lisa Ko is the author of THE LEAVERS, a novel that won the 2016 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction. Set in New York and China, THE LEAVERS follows one young man's search for his mother, an undocumented Chinese immigrant who disappears when he's 11 years old, after which he is adopted by a white family. It's the story of one mother and her son: what brings them together and takes them apart.
Women authors, Fiction, Illegal Aliens, Self-actualization, Asian American, Deportation, National Book Award Finalist, New York City Book Award, Bellwether Prize, Indies Choice Book Award Honor Book
