Kiana Davenport, Author . Ballantine $24.95 (330p) ISBN 978-0-345-48150-4
A family battles poverty, government indifference and each other in Davenport's rich third novel (Song of Exile
). Ana's mother, the beautiful Anahola, fled the Hawaiian coastal town of Nanakuli, on Oahu, when Ana was still small for a new...
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Kiana Davenport, Author Plume Books $16 (512p) ISBN 978-0-452-27458-7
Four women are called together by their domineering grandmother, who recounts the epic history of their Hawaiian family. (July)
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Kiana Davenport, Author Ballantine Books $24.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-345-42539-3
The devastating effect of WWII on two Hawaiian families pervades this haunting novel that spans three continents and decades. Davenport (Shark Dialogues) traces the stories of Sun-ja Uanoe Sung (Sunny), a Hawaiian/Korean student from an educated...
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Kiana Davenport. Thomas & Mercer, $14.95 trade paper (304p) ISBN 978-1-61218-341-1
Davenport, author of The Shark Dialogues and winner of Pushcart and O. Henry prizes, sets her most recent novel in the bloody middle years of the American Civil War. This ornate melodrama follows Johnny Tom, a Chinese immigrant and Union soldier,...
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Kiana Davenport, Author, Lee Goerner, Editor Scribner Book Company $22 (512p) ISBN 978-0-689-12191-3
A sprawling but compelling first novel, Davenport's gargantuan family epic centers on the awe-inspiring Hawaiian matriarch Pono, a prophet gifted with magic powers, and her four estranged, mixed-marriage granddaughters. The book begins in 1834 with...
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