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Leavers, the The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction Nominee for Longlist (2019) easy-to-understand guidance every parent needsOne morning, Deming Guos mother, an undocumented Chinese immigrant named Polly, goes to her job at the nail salon and never comes home. No one can find any trace of her. With his mother gone, eleven year old Deming is left with no one to care for him. He is eventually adopted by two white college professors who move him from the Bronx to a small town upstate. They rename him Daniel Wilkinson in their efforts to make him over into their version of an