6/5/2023 0 Comments The leavers book review![]() ![]() ![]() For a song had a heart of its own, a song could jumpstart or provide solace only music could numb him more thoroughly than weed or alcohol.ĭaniel is a screw-up but a fascinating character. 2 (a selection from a Chinese menu).įor so long, he had thought that music was the one thing he could believe in: harmony and angular submelody and rolling drums, a world neither present nor past, a space inhabited by the length of a song. Being Chinese, he is known to his classmates as Special No. Used to the hustle and bustle and diversity of the big city, he must learn to survive in a quiet community where he is The Other. Subsequently Deming – who becomes Daniel Wilkinson, is adopted by white parents, both professors at a small private college in upstate New York.ĭaniel suddenly becomes a stranger in a strange land. Deming Gou’s mother, an undocumented immigrant in New York City, one day leaves home to go to work at a nail salon but never returns. The central character is a boy from China who is adopted by American parents. ![]() I found this to be the case with The Leavers: A Novel. “There’s no heavier burden than a great potential.” Charles Schulz. ![]()
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