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Books. Moloka'i: A Novel. Alan Brennert. St. Martin's Publishing Group, Apr 1, 2010 - Fiction - 384 pages. Young Rachel Kalama, growing up in idyllic Honolulu in the 1890s, is part of a big, loving Hawaiian family, and dreams of seeing the far-off lands that her father, a merchant seaman, often visits. But at the age of seven, Rachel and her ...
Mar 12, 2009 · Honolulu. Audio CD – March 12, 2009. Best-selling author Alan Brennert blends history and fiction to showcase Hawaii's dynamic past in this captivating novel. Set in the 1920s and 1930s, Honolulu explores the stark contrast between the image of the glamorous Hawaiian paradise portrayed to the mainland and the harsh reality of life on the island.
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Alan Brennert was born in Englewood, New Jersey, and grew up in the towns of Cliffside Park, Palisades Park, Edgewater, and Haledon. Since 1973 he has lived in Southern California, where he received a B.A. in English from California State University at Long Beach and did graduate work in screenwriting at UCLA Film School.
Moloka'i, by Alan Brennert, is the story of Rachel Kalama, a young girl growing up in Honolulu in the 1890s who is forcibly removed from her family and placed in exile--where she finds a circle of family and friends to replace those she has lost. This "dazzling historical novel" (The Washington Post) gained a cult-like following among fans of ...
Alan Brennert is the author of Honolulu and Moloka’i, which was a 2006-2007 BookSense Reading Group Pick and won the 2006 Bookies Award, sponsored by the Contra Costa Library, for the Book Club Book of the Year. In addition to novels, he has written short stories, teleplays, screenplays, and the libretto of a stage musical, Weird Romance.
Alan Brennert is a novelist (Time and Chance) as well as an Emmy Award-winning screenwriter (L.A. Law).He lives in Southern California, but his heart is in Hawai'i. Visit Alan on the Web at www.alanbrennert.com or email alan@alanbrennert.com for a chance to have him call in to your reading group!
Book Summary. Growing up in idyllic Honolulu in the 1890s, Rachel is part of a big loving family until she is forcibly removed from her family and sent to the isolated leper colony on the island of Moloka'i. True to historical accounts, Rachel's life, though shadowed by disease, isolation and tragedy, is also one of joy, courage, and dignity.
