Daughter of Moloka'i
Large print - 2020
"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."--
- Subjects
- Genres
- Historical fiction
Domestic fiction - Published
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Waterville, Maine :
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
2020.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Edition
- Large print edition
- Item Description
- Series numeration from www.goodreads.com.
Sequel to: Moloka'i / by Alan Brennert. New York : St. Martin's Press, c2003. - Physical Description
- 535 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN
- 9781432872267