Wendy Chin-Tanner
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Victor Chin's life is turned upside down at the tender age of 15. Diagnosed with leprosy, he's forced to leave the familiar confines of the Bronx - the only home he's known since emigrating from China - to quarantine alongside patients from all over the country at a federal institution. Between treatments he dreams of escape. But soon he finds a new sense of freedom far from home - one without the pull of obligations to his family. Here, in the company...