Here's my pre-publication "can't-wait-to-read" selection:
Honolulu; Alan Brennert
Pub Date: March 3, 2009
From Amazon:
Honoluluis the richly imagined story of Jin, a young “picture bride” who leaves her native Korea—where girls are so little valued that she is known as Regret—and journeys to Hawaii in 1914 in search of a better life. 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.
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. 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
With its passionate knowledge of people and places in
What's your pick this week?
This looks really good!!
ReplyDeleteI have to add this to my TBR list as I LOVED Molokai by this author. Thanks for letting me know about it!
ReplyDelete