02348cam a2200349 i 4500 623832590 TxAuBib 20200211120000.0 190830s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2019039014 9781432872250 hardcover 1432872257 hardcover (OCoLC)1117310325 TxAuBib rda Brennert, Alan, author. Moloka'i / By Alan Brennert. Large print edition. Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2020. 665 pages (large print) ; 23 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier 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 dreams are shattered by the discovery that she has leprosy. Forcibly removed from her family, she is sent to Kalaupapa, the isolated leper colony on the island of Moloka'i. In her exile she finds a family of friends to replace the family she's lost: a native healer, Haleola, who becomes her adopted "auntie" and makes Rachel aware of the rich culture and mythology of her people; Sister Mary Catherine Voorhies, one of the Franciscan sisters who care for young girls at Kalaupapa; and the beautiful, worldly Leilani, who harbors a surprising secret. At Kalaupapa she also meets the man she will one day marry. True to historical accounts, "Moloka'i" is the story of an extraordinary human drama, the full scope and pathos of which has never been told before in fiction. But Rachel's life, though shadowed by disease, isolation, and tragedy, is also one of joy, courage, and dignity. This is a story about life, not death; hope, not despair. It is not about the failings of flesh, but the strength of the human spirit"-- Provided by publisher. 20200211. Women Hawaii Fiction. Leprosy Patients Fiction. Kalaupapa (Hawaii) Fiction. Molokai (Hawaii) Fiction. Historical fiction. Fiction. TXKPL