Lisa Ko Books

Lisa Ko is a Taiwanese American novelist whose work explores family, migration, identity, and belonging. Her debut, *The Leavers*, follows a boy separated from his mother and raised by an adoptive family; it was a…

Lisa Ko is a Taiwanese American novelist whose work explores family, migration, identity, and belonging. Her debut, *The Leavers*, follows a boy separated from his mother and raised by an adoptive family; it was a finalist for the National Book Award and won the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction. Her second novel, *Memory Piece*, follows three friends across several decades, tracing their changing lives alongside shifts in art and technology.