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Praise for “Evocative and luminous. Ko once again introduces us to people we want to know deeply, then as always, delivers that and beyond. A glorious writer.”-- Jacqueline Woodson, National Book Award winning author of “Remarkable . . . vividly captures the urgency of youth, and becomes a heartbreaking elegy for a communal, almost utopian approach to urban life.” –Rumaan Alam, National Book Award finalist for “Dazzlingly inventive and knowing, --Dana Spiotta, National Book Award finalist and author of “A group portrait of three women who wrest meaning from a world that is closing down around them, --C Pam Zhang, bestselling author of
About the author
Lisa Ko is the author of
The Leavers, which was a 2017 National Book Award for Fiction finalist, won the 2016 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction, and was a finalist for the 2018 PEN/Hemingway Award.
The Leavers was a national bestseller and was named a best book of the year by NPR,
Entertainment Weekly,
BuzzFeed, the
Los Angeles Times, and others. Ko’s short fiction has appeared in
Best American Short Stories and her essays and nonfiction have been published in
The New York Times,
The Believer, and elsewhere.
