The Leavers: A Novel Free Audiobook Download by Lisa Ko

The Leavers is a family story about two American-Chinese sisters and their grandmother who are forced to leave the mainland after the Tiananmen Square massacre. Forced to leave behind everything they know, the girls find themselves in Taiwan where their uncle immigrates them into his extended family.

The Leavers is a novel about a young woman who emigrates to America from China, with her husband and two children. As they settle into their new life, the family's very first day of school turns in to an unexpected tragedy. The mother of the deceased Chinese student inevitably wants revenge and calls for legal action against the family without severing all ties. In order to protect them from her, the family must leave their home behind and move to another state.

Set in the 1980s, it tells the coming-of-age story of Yeong-jin, a Korean boy who leaves his family and village to come to America. Yeong-jin wanted to create a new life for himself in America as he had seen other families doing successfully. He knows little English and soon realizes that the country is not what he expected

The Leavers is the novel of a Chinese American teenager, Adeline Yen Mah. She was adopted by her white parents in America but has been able to maintain her cultural identity and culture with the help of her memories. Her parents are not supportive of her in her college pursuit to become an author and they want to send her back to China. Adeline is determined to make it on her own so she begins trashing everything that reminds her of home including her family's heirlooms and trying to cut herself off from them.

"The Leavers is a novel with a lot of heart and beautiful insights". This review is from the Huffington Post. It is about Lisa Ko's novel "The Leavers." The review contains insightful information about what is included in the audiobook and how its narrated by Emily Woo Zeller.