false 4618728 2 "Honolulu" is the richly imagined story of Jin, a young 'picture bride' who leaves her native Korea - where girls are so little valued that she is known as Regret - and journeys to Hawaii in 1914 in search of a better life. 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 labourer who takes his disappointments out on his new wife, forcing her to make her own way in a strange land. 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. 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. 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 favourite. 4668682 3 3 2009 Honolulu total:378|5:102|4:155|3:101|2:15|1:5| 378 1468 773 142 4 3 false false Tue Mar 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jan 27 13:55:12 -0800 2009 Wed Mar 18 00:41:09 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Mar 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 04 10:28:49 -0800 2009 Sat Mar 28 17:03:53 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Fri Mar 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 21 08:48:34 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 21 08:53:10 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Thu Mar 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 18 10:40:25 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 18 10:40:50 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 25 12:15:41 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 25 12:16:21 -0700 2009
This is a historical novel which runs from about 1916 until the 1950’s, with the major part of the book focusing on the ‘20’s and ‘30’s. This book starts about where Michen...more...]]> 3 2 false false Sat Feb 21 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 18 18:54:12 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 21 16:06:55 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 true false Sat Aug 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 19 23:05:16 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 22 22:21:51 -0700 2009 1
"Honlulu" did a fine job depicting life for the immigrant and native born Hawaiians--the joys and the sorrows. Despite the years that have passed since those document...more...]]> 2 0 false false Sun Mar 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 15 11:39:04 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 15 11:50:23 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Oct 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 27 09:54:22 -0700 2009 Mon Nov 02 11:39:58 -0800 2009 Honolulu. The book's protagonist is a Korean "picture-bride" who finds herself in Oahu in the 1930s, and the book covers a period of time stretching from 1915 or so (in Korea) to just before WWII (thankfully Brennert didn't try to cover Pearl Harbor too).
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This is the story of a Korean picture bride who comes to Hawaii thinking the streets are made of gold, and how she lives her life once she learns that it's not true.

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It tells of the experiences of a Korean “picture bride” who comes to Honolulu in the early part of the 20th century. Though the book se...more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu Mar 26 15:52:04 -0700 2009 Thu Feb 26 17:27:34 -0800 2009 Thu Mar 26 15:52:04 -0700 2009
Honolulu is a story about a young Korean girl born in 1897. Her parents were so disappointed she was not a boy, that they named her: "Regrettable”; eventually her name was shortened to simply "Regret". Her name alone gives the reader a glimpse into how females...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Apr 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 21 11:57:46 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 19 21:41:03 -0700 2009 3.75 stars! What a hard one to review! I say "hard" simply because I loved Moloka'i so much I figure that I would be unfairly comparing the two (which I probably did). This story was a little slower to get into and I later discovered this to be the pace throughout the novel, however, the s...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Mar 10 18:12:36 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 14 16:22:49 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Feb 02 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 26 06:21:45 -0800 2009 Thu Mar 05 12:40:39 -0800 2009
Honolulu tells the story of Regret , the only girl born to a traditional Kore...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Apr 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 09 12:13:25 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 18 00:41:34 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri May 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri May 22 08:09:28 -0700 2009 Fri May 22 08:16:24 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Jun 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 06 04:42:09 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 06 05:30:08 -0700 2009 more...]]>