But paradise has its dark side, whether it’s the daily struggle for survival in Honolulu s tenements, or a crime that will become the most infamous in the islands history… With the help of three of her fellow picture brides, Jin prospers along with her adopted city, now growing from a small territorial capital into the great multicultural city it is today.
Renaming herself Jin, she makes her own way in this strange land, finding both opportunity and prejudice. Instead of the affluent young husband and chance at an education that she has been promised, she is quickly married off to a poor, embittered laborer who takes his frustrations out on his new wife. Honolulu is the rich, unforgettable story of a young picture bride who journeys to Hawai’i in 1914 in search of a better life. Time and Chance displays the same vivid sense of time and place and the vibrant, memorable characters drawn with compassion, warmth, and humor that have made the author s historical novels national bestsellers and reading group favorites.įrom the bestselling author of the dazzling historical saga The Washington Post, Moloka i, comes the irresistible story of a young immigrant bride in a ramshackle town that becomes a great modern city In Korea in those days, newborn girls were not deemed important enough to be graced with formal names, but were instead given nicknames, which often reflected the parents feelings on the birth of a daughter: I knew a girl named Anger, and another called Pity. Today, neither man is happy with the choice he made but as their lives, once separated by Time and Chance, now draw closer together, Richard and Rick are offered another a last chance to discover the road not taken. But on some other level of reality there is also a Rick Cochrane, who chose instead to set aside his dreams, marry the woman he loved, and raise a family. Thirteen years ago, Richard Cochrane left his small New England town to pursue his dreams of an acting career. Part love story, part deeply affecting character study, it is a literary tour de force chronicling the parallel lives of two men who were once the same man until, as the poet Robert Frost wrote, Two roads diverged in a yellow wood/And sorry I could not travel both/And be one traveler… Kirstine Kathryn (ed.A classic novel from the bestselling author of Moloka’i and HonoluluBefore Alan Brennert became a bestselling author of historical novels, he wrote this lyrical fantasy in the vein of The Time Traveler’s Wife.Brite Kim Newman Thomas Ligotti Sarah Ash Carl Edward Wagner Christopher Fowler Scott Edelman Roberta Lannes Clive Barker John Brunner Lisa Tuttle Graham Joyce John Gordon Joel Lane) ( combine) Stephen Campbell Jones, Ramsey (editors) (Poppy Z.
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