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Moloka'i
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One Book One San Diego, and the author will be here May 18th at 4pm.

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Ina
Jul 14, 2011 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
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 ...more
Leslie
Feb 08, 2011 rated it really liked it
Shelly Janger
Sep 28, 2011 rated it it was amazing
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Zak
May 06, 2017 marked it as to-read