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What an amazing book! Although it took awhile to "grab me" this story of an Hawaiian girl's lifelong battle and triumph over leprosy is just masterful. We experience the main character's 61 years of an amazing life of highs and lows. The story Begins with her idyllic early family life in Honolulu in 1891. When at age 7 she is diagnosed with leprosy, her world is shattered and she is banished to Molokai, the leper colony. For the next 50 years this beautiful isolated island is her world and the r
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May 06, 2017
Zak
marked it as to-read