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Moloka'i / Alan Brennert.
Van Pelt Library PS3552.R3865 M65 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brennert, Alan.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Leprosy--Patients.
- Women.
- Hawaii.
- Women--Hawaii--Fiction.
- Leprosy--Patients--Fiction.
- Leprosy.
- Kalaupapa (Hawaii)--Fiction.
- Kalaupapa (Hawaii).
- Molokai (Hawaii)--Fiction.
- Molokai (Hawaii).
- Genre:
- Psychological fiction.
- Medical novels.
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 389 pages : map ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First U.S. edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : St. Martin's Press, [2003]
- Summary:
- Young Rachel Kalama, growing up in idyllic Honolulu in the 1980s, is part of a big, loving Hawaiian family, and dreams of seeing far-off lands. But, at the age of seven, Rachel's dreams are shattered by the discovery that she has leprosy. Forcibly removed from her family, she is sent to Kalaupapa, the isolated leprosy settlement on the island of Moloka'i. Eventually, she finds a family of friends to replace the family she's lost, and falls in love with a fellow exile. But loss is a constant shadow in Kalaupapa, as the people Rachel loves are taken away one by one--until the astonishing day when a medical breakthrough allows her to leave the island.
- ISBN:
- 031230434X
- OCLC:
- 52429710
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