Hawaii islands are known for vacation, relaxing, romantic paradise. This book opens the other side of paradise- dark, no-hope, not developed island-prison.
A lot of historical facts, local details, well written.

Rachel was forced to give up her newborn daughter, Ruth, because she has leprosy. Ruth is eventually adopted by a loving Japanese family and all is going well, until the family moves to California and the war breaks out and they are placed in a relocation camp. Many years after Rachel and Ruth are reunited because Rachel has been cured of leprosy.
The book had a wonderful start and finish, but the middle dragged somewhat with many descriptions of the camps and what happened there.