Book
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Daughter of Moloka'i
Call Number
- FICTION BREN (CEN)
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Publication Information
New York : St. Martin's Press, 2019.
Physical Description
308 pages ; 24 cm
Summary
DAUGHTER OF MOLOKA'I is the sequel to Alan Brennert's national bestseller, MOLOKA'I. It's a companion tale that 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 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 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.