Episode 7: The Leavers by Lisa Ko, Belonging and Adoption

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Coconut Juice Book Club

Ravi, Steven, Zainab

19 episodes

1 month ago

Welcome to Coconut Juice, the podcast you never knew you needed and the bookclub you’ve always wanted to join but never had the time to. We think that BAME authors are marginalised and very much underrepresented, so come and join us as we add some diversity to the existing literary landscape.

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Episode 7: The Leavers by Lisa Ko, Belonging and Adoption

Coconut Juice Book Club

33 minutes 18 seconds

6 years ago

Episode 7: The Leavers by Lisa Ko, Belonging and Adoption

Deming Guo hates waking up for school, he likes watching TV and hanging out with his best friend, Michael. Born and bred in Manhattan, the 11 year old's life takes a tumultuous turn when his mother, Polly, an undocumented Chinese immigrant, doesn't come back from work one day. Abandoned and alone, he is adopted by a middle-class white American couple and Deming Guo becomes Daniel Wilkinson, the all american boy.

Daniel struggles to reconcile his new life with his mother’s disappearance and the memories of the family and community he left behind in this heart wrenching story by Chinese American author, Lisa Ko.