Summary
A sweeping story of two sisters from a small town on Hawaii’s Big Island, whose lives are irrevocably changed when one mysteriously vanishes
Big Island, Hawaii, 1920: The Kau sisters, Kana and Leilani, grow up in a small, remote village, their father the owner of the only store in town, which he inherited from his father and intends to pass on to his daughters. Half-Chinese, half-Hawaiian, they fit right into the changing face of their home, which is ever-evolving as …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781471190629 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1471190625 |
| Author: | Te-Ping Chen |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster Ltd |
| Imprint: | Scribner UK |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 30 June 2025 |
| Dimensions: | 135mm x 216mm |
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Te-Ping Chen
Te-Ping Chen is a journalist and the author of the story collection Land of Big Numbers, a Washington Post Notable Fiction title and one of President Barack Obama’s favorite books of the year. Her fiction has been published in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Granta, and Tin House. She is a Wall Street Journal correspondent in Philadelphia who was previously based in Beijing and Hong Kong. She has reported on rice cookers and wrongful convictions, gotten hung up on by Edward Snowden, and eaten more robot-cooked noodles than she can count.
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