Lisa Ko is the author of The Leavers , which was a 2017 National Book Award for Fiction finalist, won the 2016 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction, and was a finalist for the 2018 PEN/Hemingway Award. The Leavers was a national best seller and was named a ''best book of the year'' by NPR, Entertainment Weekly, Buzzfeed, The Los Angeles Times , and others...