The leavers

Description:

"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"--

subjects: Deportation,  Illegal aliens,  Mothers and sons,  Children of illegal aliens,  Self-actualization (Psychology),  Fiction,  Mothers and sons, fiction,  Fiction, family life,  Chinese americans, fiction,  Fiction, cultural heritage,  New York Times reviewed,  Children of illegal aliens -- Fiction,  Mothers and sons -- Fiction,  Illegal aliens -- Fiction,  Deportation -- Fiction,  Self-actualization (Psychology) -- Fiction