num_pages: 309
description: This companion tale to Moloka'i tells the story of Ruth the daughter that Rachel Kalamaquarantined for most of her life at the isolated leprosy settlement of Kalaupapawas 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 IIand then after the war to the life-altering day when she receives a letter from a woman who says she is Ruths birth mother Rachel.
language: English
title: Daughter of Moloka'i
publisher: St. Martin's Press