Daughter of Moloka'i
Author
Format:
Large print
Physical Description
535 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Edition
Large print edition.
Production / Publication Information
Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, 2020.
Summary
"Alan Brennert's beloved novel Moloka'i, currently has over 600,000 copies in print. This companion tale tells the story of Ruth, the daughter that Rachel Kalama--quarantined for most of her life at the isolated leprosy settlement of Kalaupapa--was forced to give up at birth. The book follows young Ruth from her arrival at the Kapi'olani Home for Girls in Honolulu, to her adoption by a Japanese couple who raise her on a strawberry and grape farm in California, her marriage and unjust internment at Manzanar Relocation Camp during World War II--and then, after the war, to the life-altering day when she receives a letter from a woman who says she is Ruth's birth mother, Rachel. Daughter of Moloka'i expands upon Ruth and Rachel's 22-year relationship, only hinted at in Moloka'i. It's a richly emotional tale of two women--different in some ways, similar in others--who never expected to meet, much less come to love, one another. And for Ruth it is a story of discovery, the unfolding of a past she knew nothing about. Told in vivid, evocative prose that conjures up the beauty and history of both Hawaiian and Japanese cultures, it's the powerful and poignant tale that readers of Moloka'i have been awaiting for fifteen years"--
Call Number
LP/FIC/BRENNERT
Publication Date
2019-2020
Language
English
ISBN
9781432872267
Daughter of Moloka'i
Author
Format:
Books
Physical Description
308 pages ; 25 cm
Edition
First edition.
Production / Publication Information
New York : St. Martin's Press, 2019.
Call Number
FIC/BRENNERT
Publication Date
2019
Language
English
ISBN
9781250137661
by
Brennert, Alan
Format:
eBook
Electronic Format:
HTML, ADOBE EPUB, KINDLE
Vendor
Libby
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