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jenkepesh 's review for:
The Leavers
by Lisa Ko
I enjoyed The Leavers, an immigrant’s story, very much. I think this was particularly poignant because it captured so many ways that collateral damage occurs around immigration: children sent back and forth between countries, crushing debt to fixers as part of one’s basic existence, shutting oneself off from basic human emotional experiences for fear of connecting and then being ripped apart, even the pain of WASP parents who truly want to do right by their adopted children. How hard it is to truly heal from these traumas, and how people soldier on. It is a first novel, and it is a bit uneven, but it is not just any old immigrant experience novel, and I savored it.