DAUGHTER OF MOLOKA'I

This companion tale to Moloka'i tells the story of Ruth, the daughter that Rachel Kalama—quarantined for most of her life at the isolated leprosy settlement of Kalaupapa—was forced to give up at birth.

The book follows young Ruth from her arrival at the Kapi'olani Home for Girls in Honolulu, to her adoption by a Japanese couple who raise her on a strawberry and grape farm in California, her marriage and unjust internment at Manzanar Relocation Camp during World War II—and then, after the war, to the life-altering day when she receives a letter from a woman who says she is Ruth’s birth mother, Rachel.

Aceasta poveste insotitoare a lui Moloka'i spune povestea lui Ruth, fiica careia Rachel Kalama - pusa in carantina pentru cea mai mare parte a vietii sale in asezarea izolata de lepra din Kalaupapa - a fost fortata sa renunte la nastere. Caminul Kapi'olani pentru fete din Honolulu, la adoptarea ei de catre un cuplu japonez care o creste intr-o ferma de capsuni si struguri din California, casatoria si internarea nedreapta la lagarul de relocare Manzanar din timpul celui de-al doilea razboi mondial - si apoi, dupa razboi, pana in ziua schimbatoare de viata cand primeste o scrisoare de la o femeie care spune ca este mama nasterii lui Ruth, Rachel.