The story of two sisters from a small town on Hawaii’s Big Island, as one goes missing and the other takes on her family’s livelihood—until an uncanny voice on the radio convinces her to travel to Honolulu, searching for her sister, long assumed dead.Big Island, 1920: The Kau sisters, Kana and Leilani, grow up in a small village, miles from Hilo, their father the owner of the only store in town, a store that he inherited from his father and intends to pass...

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**A dazzling debut collection which, deftly and urgently, tells the stories of those living in the biggest and most complicated country on earth.A BARACK OBAMA READING LIST SELECTION FOR SUMMER 2021**‘In this magnificent collection of stories, the author vividly captures the desires and losses of a richly drawn cast while drawing on the realities of contemporary China’? CosmopolitanA brother competes for gaming glory while his twin sister e...

A Best Book of the Year: Barack Obama · NPR · The Washington Post · The Philadelphia Inquirer · Esquire · Kirkus Reviews · Chicago Public Library · Electric LiteratureMalala Yousafzai’s Fearless Book Club Pick for Literati""Dazzling...Riveting."" —New York Times Book Review“Gripping and illuminating . . . At the heart of Te-Ping Chen’s re...