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Harper
April 2015
On Sale: April 14, 2015
320 pages
ISBN: 0062345435
EAN: 9780062345431
Kindle: B00LZXFBFU
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Multicultural Contemporary Fiction | Women's Fiction | Literature and Fiction
A sweeping debut spanning from China to Hawaii that follows four
generations of a wealthy shipping
family whose rise and decline is riddled with secrets and tragic love—from a
young, powerful new
voice in fiction. At the turn of the nineteenth century, Frank Leong, a fabulously wealthy
shipping industrialist,
moves his family from China to the island of Oahu. But something ancient
follows the Leongs to
Hawaii, haunting them. The parable of the red string of fate, the cord that
binds one intended
beloved to her perfect match, also punishes for mistakes in love, passing a
destructive knot down the
family line. When Frank Leong is murdered, his family is thrown into a perilous downward
spiral. Left to rebuild
in their patriarch’s shadow, the surviving members of the Leong family try
their hand at a new,
ordinary life, vowing to bury their gilded past. Still, the island continues to
whisper—fragmented
pieces of truth and chatter, until a letter arrives two decades later, carrying a
confession that shatters
the family even further. Now the Leongs’ survival rests with young Theresa, Frank Leong’s only
grandchild, eighteen and
pregnant, the heir apparent to her ancestors’ punishing knots. Told through the eyes of the Leong’s secret-keeping daughters and wives and
spanning The Boxer
Rebellion to Pearl Harbor to 1960s Hawaii, DIAMOND HEAD is a breathtakingly
powerful tale of
tragic love, shocking lies, poignant compromise, aching loss, heroic acts of
sacrifice and, miraculous
hope.
Comments
2 comments posted.
Re: Diamond Head
Congratulations on your first book. So nice to have your
mother involved.
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