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Lisa Ko

Lisa Ko - Books

Hi! I'm the author of MEMORY PIECE (Riverhead, March 2024) and THE LEAVERS (Algonquin, May 2017). THE LEAVERS was a national bestseller that won the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction and was a finalist for the National Book Award. I'm a believer in the long game: I started writing stories when I was 5 years old and published my first book at 41.

Learn more about me and my work on my website.

The Leavers

2024
The Leavers revolves around the story of a young boy, Deming Guo, whose mother, an undocum

Memory Piece

2024
In the early 1980s, Giselle Chin, Jackie Ong, and Ellen Ng are three teenagers drawn toget