Lisa Ko was a finalist for the 2017 National Book Award for fiction for her debut novel, “The Leavers” (Algonquin Books). She joins us to talk about her story of a young boy adopted by a pair of white professors after his Chinese immigrant mother mysteriously disappears.
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Photo courtesy of Bartosz Potocki.