by Ashley McCall | Aug 4, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Current Events & Politics, General Fiction
When Lisa Ko’s debut novel The Leavers opens, we’re introduced to Deming Guo, a young Chinese immigrant (technically born in the U.S. but raised for a handful of years by his grandfather in rural China) living in New York City with his mother, Polly. They live with...