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The Leavers: A Novel
April 17, 2017 | 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
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Harvard Book Store and GrubStreet welcome LISA KO for a discussion of her debut novel, The Leavers—winner of the 2016 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction and named one of the most anticipated books of 2017 by Entertainment Weekly, TIME, and The Millions.
Set in New York and China, The Leavers is a vivid examination of borders and belonging. 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.
This is free and open to the public.
Did You Know?
Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.