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Hawaii
by James A. Michener
It's always a major commitment to finish a Michener book!
We were in Hawaii waiting for the hurricane and realized we only had e-readers, which might not stay readable if there was a prolonged power outage, so while everyone else was getting water at Safeway, we went to a used bookstore and got real books, and I couldn't resist Hawaii!
My favorite parts:
- the gritty description of the leper colony on Molokai
- the missionary doctor, Dr. Whipple
It all felt so real I had to keep googling the characters, but they really are fictional, albeit loosely based on real historical figures (Dr. Whipple, for instance, was inspired by the real missionary Asa Thurston). True to history, the Whipple family in the book numbers in the hundreds by the fifth generation after the missionaries came, and - according to Wikipedia - there are hundreds of Thurston descendants now.
We were in Hawaii waiting for the hurricane and realized we only had e-readers, which might not stay readable if there was a prolonged power outage, so while everyone else was getting water at Safeway, we went to a used bookstore and got real books, and I couldn't resist Hawaii!
My favorite parts:
- the gritty description of the leper colony on Molokai
- the missionary doctor, Dr. Whipple
It all felt so real I had to keep googling the characters, but they really are fictional, albeit loosely based on real historical figures (Dr. Whipple, for instance, was inspired by the real missionary Asa Thurston). True to history, the Whipple family in the book numbers in the hundreds by the fifth generation after the missionaries came, and - according to Wikipedia - there are hundreds of Thurston descendants now.