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| Title Statement | Daughter of Moloka'i / Alan Brennert. |
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| Author | Brennert, Alan |
| Publication | New York: St. Martin's Press,2019. |
| Edition | First U.S. edition. |
| Extent of Item | 308 pages |
| ISBN | 1250137667 9781250137661 |
| Other Number | 3461452 |
| Bibliography | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Summary | The book follows young Ruth from her arrival at the Kapi'olani Home for Girls in Honolulu, to her adoption by a Japanese couple who raise her on a strawberry and grape farm in California, her marriage and unjust internment at Manzanar Relocation Camp during World War II--and then, after the war, to the life-altering day when she receives a letter from a woman who says she is Ruth's birth mother, Rachel. |
| Subjects & Genres | |
| By Topic | Adoptees--Fiction |
| Mothers and daughters--Fiction | |
| Japanese Americans--Fiction--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 | |
| World War, 1939-1945--Fiction | |
| By Genre | Historical fiction |
