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Book Review of Moloka'i (Moloka'i, Bk 1)

Moloka'i (Moloka'i, Bk 1)
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The back cover begins, "This richly imagined novel..." which it an apt description of this engrossing, factually-based book on the leprosy outbreak and subsequent patient confinement in Hawaii. It follows the life of Rachel, a young leprosy sufferer, as she endures through the years.