![]() Importance: Here, Daniel reflects on the differences between his life with his mother in Chinatown and his life with the Wilkinsons. He had never known how exhausting it was to be conspicuous. The opening chapters shift to Deming’s life ten years later. When she disappears, he and his familywho include Polly’s boyfriend Leon, Leon’s sister Vivian, and Vivian’s son Michaelare unable to locate her. Peter's presumptuous reference to their home as Daniel's home, too, reflects the Wilkinsons' expectation that Deming/Daniel will simply let go of his thoughts of his previous home and accept their home unconditionally. The Leavers opens on the day before Deming’s mother Polly, an undocumented Chinese immigrant working at a nail salon in New York, disappears. Importance: Peter Wilkinson says this to Deming after he has first been placed in their foster care. The memory is a commentary on how undocumented immigrants, given their precarious situations in the U.S., cannot hold and keep their promises separation is not solely dependent upon them. Inspired by a 2009 New York Times article about an undocumented Chinese woman held in predominantly solitary detention for 18 months, The Leavers tells the coming-of-age tale of Deming Guo/Daniel Wilkinson’s loss and eventual. ![]() Importance: Here, Daniel recalls a memory of his mother promising never to leave him. The Leavers, author Lisa Ko's debut novel, won the 2016 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction. ![]() ![]() 'I promise I'll never leave you.' But one day, she did. Never.' His mother took his hand and swung it up and down. ![]()
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