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The chronicle of leprosyinfected rachel kalama begins in 1891 in honolulu and ends in the late 1960s on isolated molokai, site of the kalaupapa leprosy settlement. Forcibly removed from her family, she is sent to kalaupapa, the isolated leper colony on the island. His novel molokai was a national bestseller and a one book, one san diego selection for 2012. From the bestselling author of the dazzling historical saga the washington post, molokai, comes the irresistible story of a young immigrant bride in a ramshackle town that becomes a great modern city in korea in those days, newborn girls were not deemed important enough to be graced with formal names. This companion tale tells the story of ruth, the daughter that rachel kalamaquarantined for.
The powerful debut novel from alan brennert, molokai tells the story of rachel kalama, a sevenyearold hawaiian girl who contracts leprosy and is quarantined on the island of molokai during the 1890s. Molokai is the story of rachel kalama, a young native hawaiian girl growing up in honolulu at the end of the19th century, who at age seven is diagnosed with hansens disease, taken from her family, and exiled to the leprosy settlement on a remote peninsula on the island of molokai. Alan brennert books author download ebooks pdf, mobi, epub. Alan brennert is the author of the historical novels palisades park, honolulu chosen one of the best books of 2009 by the washington post, and molokai, which won the 2006 bookies award, sponsored by the contra costa library, for the book club book of the year and has sold over 600,000 copies since publication. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading molokai. Young rachel kalama, growing up in idyllic honolulu in the 1890s, is part.
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