The Leavers by Lisa KoMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
This was a Book of the Month selection, and I was glad to have chosen it. It follows Deming, a boy from childhood to adulthood, as he copes with separation from his mother as a young child, when she lives in America, trying to earn enough money to support him, while he lives in her childhood village in China. Once he comes to the US, they make a life together in New York City, but he is again separated from her at age eleven, when she mysteriously disappears from her job at a nail salon one day.
Deming ends up adopted by a WASPy couple in a small suburban town, and while they do their best to be good parents to him, he never fully belongs to them. The rest of the book tells the story of his search for his birth mother, for his identity, and for solace - of any sort. Well-written with compelling characters, this was a winner in my book.
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