Then it was on to San Francisco for five years, working in film production and co-starting an Asian American magazine. After college she moved to New York City where she worked in book, magazine, and web publishing. It was there that she devoured books by writers of color and finally began to write about people who looked like she did. She also read throughout her childhood and adolescence-as she says on her website, "to escape, to dream." At five she started keeping a journal and wrote her first book, Magenta Goes to College. Lonely, she turned to reading and writing for company and comfort. She was born in New York City's Borough of Queens, though eventually her family moved to the New Jersey suburbs where she grew up.Īs the only Asian child in her community, Ko knows what it feels like to be an outsider, a feeling that has informed her fiction. Her parents are of Chinese descent who came to the U.S. Lisa is the first generation of her extended family to be born in American. Currently-lives in Brooklyn, New York City, New York.Education-B.A., Weslyan University M.L.I.Where-Queens, New York City, New York, USA.It’s a moving story of how a boy comes into his own when everything he loves is taken away, and how a mother learns to live with the mistakes of the past. Set in New York and China, The Leavers is a vivid examination of borders and belonging. Loving and selfish, determined and frightened, Polly is forced to make one heartwrenching choice after another. Told from the perspective of both Daniel-as he grows into a directionless young man-and Polly, Ko’s novel gives us one of fiction’s most singular mothers. But far from all he’s ever known, Daniel struggles to reconcile his adoptive parents’ desire that he assimilate with his memories of his mother and the community he left behind. Eventually adopted by a pair of well-meaning white professors, Deming is moved from the Bronx to a small town upstate and renamed Daniel Wilkinson. With his mother gone, eleven-year-old Deming is left mystified and bereft.
One morning, Deming Guo’s mother, Polly, an undocumented Chinese immigrant, goes to her job at a nail salon-and never comes home. Lisa Ko’s powerful debut, The Leavers, is the winner of the 2016 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Fiction, awarded by Barbara Kingsolver for a novel that addresses issues of social justice.
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