![]() It also received the Bookies Award, sponsored by the Contra Costa Library, for the 2006 Book Club Book of the Year. His novel Moloka’i was a national bestseller and a One Book, One San Diego selection for 2012. He grew up in New Jersey but moved to California in 1973. ![]() Read moreĪlan Brennert is a novelist, screenwriter, and playwright. But paradise has its dark side, whether it's the struggle for survival in Honolulu's tenements or a crime that will become the most infamous in the island's history. As she makes her own way in this strange land, with the help of three fellow picture brides, she prospers along with her adopted city. Traveling to Hawaii as a "picture bride" in 1914, Regret finds not the affluent young husband and chance at education she'd been promised, but a poor embittered laborer who takes his frustrations out on his new wife. Here her life is supposed to end-but instead she discovers it is just beginning. ![]() Taken from her home and family, Rachel is sent to Kalaupapa, the quarantined leprosy settlement on the island of Moloka'i. Then one day a rose-colored mark appears on her skin, and those dreams are stolen from her. Rachel Kalama, a spirited seven-year-old Hawaiian girl, dreams of visiting far-off land like her father, a merchant seaman. A "master of historical fiction" (San Francisco Chronicle), Brennert's storytelling is brimming with warmth, humor, compassion, and vividly realized characters. ![]() Alan Brennert's novels set in Hawai'i are spellbinding. ![]()
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