LATEST DISCOUNTS & SALES: PROMOTIONS
Lisa Ko's fiction has appeared in Best American Short Stories 2016, Apogee Journal, Narrative, Copper Nickel, the Asian Pacific American Journal, and elsewhere. She has been awarded fellowships and residencies from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the MacDowell Colony, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Writers OMI at Ledig House, the Jerome Foundation, and Blue Mountain Center, among others. She was born in New York City, where she now lives. Visit her at lisa-ko.com.
A rich and sensitive portrait of lives lived across borders, cultures, and languages ... One of the most engaging, deeply probing, and beautiful books I have read this year * Laila Lalami, author of The Moor's Account * A must-read * Marie Claire * Ambitious . . . Lisa Ko has taken the headlines and has reminded us that beyond them lie messy, brave, extraordinary, ordinary lives * New York Times Book Review * Instantly compelling * Stylist Magazine * Lisa Ko's writing is snappy, real and completely engrossing... it took my breath away * Books ft. Politics * A rich, multifaceted portrait of displacement and the trauma of not belonging -- Lucy Scholes * Independent * One of 2017's most anticipated fiction debuts... The Leavers feels as relevant as ever as the future of immigrants in America hangs in the balance * TIME * There was a time I would have called Lisa Ko's novel beautifully written, ambitious, and moving, and all of that is true, but it's more than that now: if you want to understand a forgotten and essential part of the world we live in, The Leavers is required reading * Ann Patchett, author of Commonwealth * Utterly immersive * Daily Mail * Quietly sensational . . . its underlying themes of displacement and deportation carry deep and desperately urgent resonances far beyond America, and fiction -- Arifa Akbar * Guardian *
