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Julia leaves her sons behind for her mother to ta.
He says they will get married and she can send for her boys if she adapts to the rural lifestyle.
He secures a job at a ranch on the island of Moloka\'i and invites Julia to join him, but without her sons.
He\'s seven years Julia\'s senior and has admired her since her girlhood days.
Then local boy Chipper Gilman returns a hero from the Great War.
Luckily, her mother allows her to live at the family home and they raise the half-brothers as best as they can.
Julia\'s rebound affair with a sea merchant gets her pregnant again and she now has two infant sons to raise.
Sixteen-year-old Julia has a passionate affair with the younger brother but must fend for herself after he leaves her pregnant.
Sue strikes gold, receiving a marriage proposal from her overseas beau.
Julia Wright and Sue, her big sister, have met a pair of dashing English brothers sent to Hawaii by a wealthy father to avoid the draft in their home country.
ABOUT THE BOOK: We are on the verge of the Roaring Twenties in Honolulu.
His stories and stand-alone chapters have appeared in over two hundred literary journals and magazines worldwide.
Wright received the 2018 Redwood Empire Mensa Award for Creative Nonfiction.
The Wright ohana is filled with funny, wild, and damaged characters searching for redemption." -Adam Berlin and Jeffrey Heiman, Editors, J Journal: New Writing on Justice-"Wright\'s work is reminiscent of Pat Conroy\'s THE PRINCE OF TIDES for family struggle and Frank Mc Court\'s ANGELA\'S ASHES for women overcoming great hardship."-The Coast News ABOUT THE AUTHOR: KIRBY Michael Wright is the author of the companion books PUNAHOU BLUES and MOLOKA\'I NUI AHINA, both set in Hawaii.
This Story would make a breathtaking TV series or feature-length movie." -Dawn Lowe, Editor, Brilliant Flash Fiction-"The chapters burn with a searing honesty in their family talk, family love, and family fight.
Description EARLY REVIEWS: -"Visually stunning and a real page-turner
