The Leavers (National Book Award Finalist): A Novel

by Lisa Ko

Genres: Literary Fiction

Kindle Edition

Published May 2, 2017

About the author

Hi! I'm the author of MEMORY PIECE (Riverhead, March 2024) and THE LEAVERS (Algonquin, May 2017). THE LEAVERS was a national bestseller that won the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction and was a finalist for the National Book Award. I'm a believer in the long game: I started writing stories when I was 5 years old and published my first book at 41.

Learn more about me and my work on my website.

Reviews

[Shelley · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very well written book about a Chinese-American boy, his birth mother, the immigration system and his adoptive parents—also about finding your own identity, living with loss and ultimate acceptance.

[Beatrice · Rating 5 out of 5]

So good! The ending felt a little rushed though