In 1913, three young sisters suffering from tuberculosis are sent for treatment to a Christian orphanage in the Kalihi Valley in Hawaii. Only the oldest, Anah, survives to grow up, marry and have children of her own, but all her life she is haunted by the loss of her family, and the dead seem determined to make her life miserable. This is one of the most beautiful and poetic books I’ve ever read but the beauty is blanketed so heavily by sadness and a sense […]