Honolulu

Honolulu is the richly imagined story of Jin, a young "picture bride" who leaves her native Korea -- where girls are so little valued that she is known as Regret -- and journeys to Hawaii in 1914 in search of a better life. Instead of the prosperous young husband and the chance at an education she h...

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Main Author: Brennert, Alan
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2009.
Edition:1st ed.
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