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Robert morgan, author of gap creek alan brennert draws on historical accounts of kalaupapa and weaves in traditional hawaiian stories and customs moloka i is the story of people who had much taken from them but also gained an unexpected new family and community in the process. I is the highly anticipated sequel to alan brennerts. Jul 12, 2010 alan brennert does a great job job of balancing fiction and nonfiction in this story and our book club found tremendous historical value in molokai. Publication date 2004 topics women, leprosy publisher new york. Always update books hourly, if not looking, search in the book search column. This companion tale tells the story of ruth, the daughter that rachel kalamaquarantined for most of her life at the isolated. Molokai 2004 read online free book by alan brennert in.
Young rachel kalama, growing up in idyllic honolulu in the 1890s, is part of a big. Alan brennerts molokai is a beautifully written and moving tale of a young girls interaction with a leprosy colony throughout her life time. This is not usually the kind of novel molokai by alan brennert i normally read. Molokai by alan brennert overdrive rakuten overdrive. Description of molokai series by alan brennert epub molokai series is an extraordinary collection of historybased fiction books. A gritty story of love and survival in a hawaiian leper colony.
The setting was one of the things that made molokai so wonderful to read. The book was published in multiple languages including english, consists of 405 pages and is available in paperback format. Alan brennerts novel takes place after the island has been settled for some time, aid that was brought to the island by the catholic church. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading daughter of molokai. His career as a screenwriter starts way back in 1978 where he did several scripts for the renowned wonder woman series. 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. The first edition of the novel was published in october 21st 2003, and was written by alan brennert.
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