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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 Hawai'i's Kalihi Valley. Of the three, two will die there, and only Anah, the eldest, will survive. But the ghosts of the dead sisters will haunt Anah as she prepares to begin married life away from the orphanage. Desperate for the love of their sister, but jealous of her ability to live in the physical world, they are determined to thwart Anah's happiness. As Anah struggles to appease the dead, it becomes apparent that only through one of her own daughters can redemption be attained.
Poignant, lyrical, and utterly compelling, Behold the Many is a stunning novel that glows with longing and life.
Anah suffers many devastating words and events in the course of this novel. But in Behold the Many , one of our nation's most dynamic literary stylists forces us to stare wide-eyed into the pain until we can see the healing beauty hidden in its folds.
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Ramona Redux
reviewed Behold the Many on June 06, 2012
Behold the Many
Reminded me a bit of Peony in Love with unsettled, needy, lonely ghosts, in this case the ghosts of children particularly Anah's sisters Aki and Leah who die of tuberculosis in St. Joseph's orphanage.
Anah is also in the orphanage, sick with tuberculosis. Anah, Aki and Leah's situation is worse than some as they have been deserted by their family as well.
Anah falls in love and at 18 is able to leave the orphanage and marry the boy she loves. But she is plagued by the ghost of her husband's dead brother, who also died at the orphanage by falling out of a tree. Her sisters are around as well, angry at her for living and for having a home again. Through the years of her childbearing and married life the ghosts keep up their campaign of cursing her and crying.
I was never not interested in the story but it was slow moving sometimes and seemed to repeat itself a lot.
All the Hawaiian history is interesting, the pidgin is hard for me to understand as not all of it is based in English. Anah and her siblings are Japanese and Portuguese. The story does not lend itself to an admiration of the Portuguese character.
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