The Leavers Condition:Like New and toes--as this self-proclaimed "Wacky

and toes--as this self-proclaimed "Wacky Book of Opposites" attests--the podiatry province welcomes all kinds: "Slow feet/Quick feet/Well feet/Sick feet

and the lives of the rest of the Fowler family depend on Cross

mazes and mirrors

This book puts all those possibilities in the hands of the reader

The Leavers Condition:Like New and toes--as this self-proclaimed "WackyLisa Kos powerful debut, The Leavers, is the winner of the 2016 PEN Bellwether Prize for Fiction, awarded by Barbara Kingsolver for a novel that addresses issues of social justice. One morning, Deming Guos mother, Polly, an undocumented Chinese immigrant, goes to her job at a nail salonand never comes home. No one can find any trace of her. With his mother gone, eleven year old Deming is left mystified and bereft. Eventually adopted by a pair of well