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"In 1913, stricken by tuberculosis, young Anah, Aki, and Leah are sent away from their family for treatment at St. Joseph's, an orphanage in Hawaii's Kalihi Valley. Of the three, two will die there, in spite of the nuns' best efforts to save them, and only Anah, the eldest, will grow to adulthood. But the ghosts of the dead sisters are afraid to leave the grounds of St. Joseph's, where they wait until they can return home. As Anah prepares to begin married life away from the orphanage, they haunt her." -- Jacket.
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2 editions- Paperback · English · 2007Picador · 352 pages · 9780312426545
- Other · English · 2006Farrar, Straus and Giroux · 341 pages · 9780374110154
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