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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.The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's notability guideline for biographies. Now the Leongs survival rests with young Theresa, Frank Leong s only grandchild, eighteen and pregnant, the heir apparent to her ancestors punishing knots. 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. 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. When Frank Leong is murdered, his family is thrown into a perilous downward spiral. 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. But something ancient follows the Leongs to Hawaii, haunting them. At the turn of the nineteenth century, Frank Leong, a fabulously wealthy shipping industrialist, moves his family from China to the island of Oahu.
Ī 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. The parable of the red string of fate, the cord that binds one intended beloved to her perfect match. 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.
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