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ReadUP 2020: The Leavers: Interviews & Readings

Lisa Ko Interview & Reading

Includes brief summary, a short interview, and book recommendations from the author. Includes discussion of the chosen profession of the adoptive parents in the book.

Lisa Ko reads from her novel The Leavers at Buffalo Street Books in Ithaca, NY on October 1, 2017.

Written Interviews

black and white drawing of two people at a table with speech bubblesThe Pen Ten with Lisa Ko by PEN America  

Why I Wrote The Leavers by Lisa Ko from lisa-ko.com  

Barbara Kingsolver’s interview with Lisa Ko about writing The Leavers   

Image Copyright Attribution

Interview [icon] by Becris comes from the Noun Project and is being used under the Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution License

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