![]() ![]() ![]() Read Alan Brennert's blog entry about Honolulu at BookBrowse. Alan Brennert is the author of the historical novels Palisades Park, Honolulu (chosen one of the best books of 2009 by The Washington Post), and Moloka'i, which won the 2006 Bookies Award, sponsored by the Contra Costa Library, for the Book Club Book of the Year (and has sold over 600,000 copies since publication). 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 favorite. 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. A moving, multilayered epic by a master of historical fiction. He has done it again in Honolulu, which focuses on the Asian immigrant experience in Hawaii. 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. Thats what Los Angeles writer Alan Brennert did in his previous novel, Molokai, the story of diseased Hawaiians exiled in their own land. ![]() 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 laborer who takes his disappointments out on his new wife, forcing her to make her own way in a strange land. Honolulu is the richly imagined story of Jin, a young picture bride who leaves her native Koreawhere girls are so little valued that she is known as Regretand journeys to Hawaii in 1914 in search of a better life. ![]()
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