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Daughter of Moloka'i, Alan Brennert

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Daughter of Moloka'i

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Alan Brennert

This companion tale to Alan Brennerts Moloka'i 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 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 IIand then, after the war, to the life-altering day when she receives a letter from a woman who says she is Ruths birth mother, Rachel. Daughter of Moloka'i expands upon Ruth and Rachels 22-year relationship, only hinted at in Moloka'i. 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 Moloka'i have been awaiting for fifteen years