Daughter of Moloka'i - Moloka'i, Bk 2 Author:Alan Brennert 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 wh... more »o 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.« less