Alan Brennert
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First U.S. edition, First international edition.
Physical Desc
308 pages : illustration ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Follows the story of quarantined leprosy patient Rachel Kalama's daughter, Ruth, who is raised by adoptive Japanese parents on a California grape farm before her unjust internment during World War II.
2) Moloka'I
Author
Publisher
St Martins Pr (T)
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
This richly imagined novel, set in Hawai'i more than a century ago, is an extraordinary epic of a little-known time and place---and a deeply moving testament to the resiliency of the human spirit.
Rachel Kalama, a spirited seven-year-old Hawaiian girl, dreams of visiting far-off lands like her father, a merchant seaman. Then one day a rose-colored mark appears on her skin, and those dreams are stolen from her. Taken from her home and family, Rachel...