Behold the Many

Lois-Ann Yamanaka

Original title: Behold the many

first published 2006 Picador, 2007 paperback 352 pages

"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...

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Behold the Many paperback · 2007 · Picador · 352 pages · 9780312426545
Behold the many edition · 2006 · Farrar, Straus and Giroux · 341 pages · 9780374110154

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