The Leavers Condition:Like New mazes and mirrors

mazes and mirrors

and Jasmine

as well as strands of radical thinking

and toes--as this self-proclaimed "Wacky Book of Opposites" attests--the podiatry province welcomes all kinds: "Slow feet/Quick feet/Well feet/Sick feet

This book puts all those possibilities in the hands of the reader

The Leavers Condition:Like New mazes and mirrorsLisa Kos 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. One morning, Deming Guos mother, Polly, an undocumented Chinese immigrant, goes to her job at a nail salonand never comes home. No one can find any trace of her. With his mother gone, eleven year old Deming is left mystified and bereft. Eventually adopted by a pair of well