![]() ![]() ![]() Read Alan Brennert's blog entry about Honolulu at BookBrowse. With its passionate knowledge of people and places in Hawaii far off the tourist track, Honolulu is a spellbinding story of the triumphs and sacrifices of the human spirit that is sure to become another reading group favorite. Prospering along with her adopted city, which is fast growing from a small territorial capital to the great multicultural city it is today, Jin can never forget the people she left behind in Korea, and returns one last time to make her peace with her former life. Brennerts mostly successful follow-up to his book club phenomenon, Molokai, chronicles the lives of Asian immigrants in and around Hawaiis early 20th-century glamour days. In three separate interviews Alan Brennert talks about Molokai, set in a leper colony in early 20th century Hawaii Honolulu, which follows the life of a. ![]() Struggling to build a business with the help of her fellow picture brides, Jin finds both opportunity and prejudice, but ultimately transforms herself from a naive young girl into a resourceful woman. Instead of the prosperous young husband and the chance at an education she has been promised, Jin is quickly married off to a poor, embittered laborer who takes his disappointments out on his new wife, forcing her to make her own way in a strange land. Honolulu is the richly imagined story of Jin, a young picture bride who leaves her native Koreawhere girls are so little valued that she is known as Regretand journeys to Hawaii in 1914 in search of a better life. DAUGHTER OF MOLOKAI is the highly anticipated sequel to Alan Brennert’s acclaimed book club favorite, and national bestseller, MOLOKAI. ![]()
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