Daughter of Molokai: A Novel

NOW A LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER NAMED A BEST/MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK BY: USA Today BookRiot BookBub LibraryReads OC Register Never Ending VoyageThe highly anticipated sequel to Alan Brennerts acclaimed book club favorite, and national bestseller, MolokaiA novel of illumination and affection. USA TodayAlan Brennerts beloved novel Molokai, currently has over 600,000 copies in print. This companion tale tells the story of Ruth, the daughter that Rachel Kalamaquarantined for most of her life at the isolated leprosy settlement of Kalaupapawas forced to give up at birth.The book follows young Ruth from her arrival at the Kapiolani 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 IIand then, after the war, to the lifealtering day when she receives a letter from a woman who says she is Ruths birth mother, Rachel.Daughter of Molokai expands upon Ruth and Rachels 22year relationship, only hinted at in Molokai. Its a richly emotional tale of two womendifferent in some ways, similar in otherswho 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, its the powerful and poignant tale that readers of Molokai have been awaiting for fifteen years.