Behold the Many: A Novel
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Behold the Many is the eerily beautiful story of three young sisters, Anah, Aki, and Leah. In 1913, they are sent away from their family for treatment for tuberculosis to an orphanage in Hawaii's Kalihi Valley. Of the three, two will die there, in spite of the nuns' best efforts to save them, and only Anah, the eldest, will grow to adulthood.
But the ghosts of the dead children are afraid to leave the grounds of St. Joseph's, which is the only place they have known as home, and as Anah prepares to begin married life away from the orphanage, these ghost children grow angry. Desperate for the love of this girl who has communicated with them since her childhood, jealous of her ability to live in the physical world, and terrified of losing her, the ghosts are determined to thwart Anah's happiness. One of them places a curse on her that will reverberate through her future and that of her new family. As Anah struggles to appease the dead and to quiet her own guilt for living, 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 new novel from the critically acclaimed author Lois-Ann Yamanaka.
Lois-Ann Yamanaka
Lois-Ann Yamanaka is the author of the poetry collection Saturday Night at the Pahala Theatre; the fiction trilogy Wild Meat and the Bully Burgers, Blu's Hanging, and Heads by Harry; as well as a young adult novel, Name Me Nobody. She has won a Lannan Literary Award, an Asian American Literary Award, and an American Book Award. She lives in Honolulu.
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Reviews for Behold the Many
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5It took me a little while to get through this book, but I did enjoy it a great deal. It's a bit of a detour from Yamanaka's other books, both in style and subject matter. It's a bit of a psychological thriller also - I found myself getting chicken skin from time to time.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The newest edition from Yamanaka, and as usual very evocative of the world of Hawai'i, this time Hawai'i of the past. It's always interesting to read interpretations of Oahu before the modern era, and this novel does a wonderful job of painting the intimate details of that landscape as Yamanaka imagines it through her experiences as a native islander. Particularly notable is Yamanaka's knowledge of local plants and healing, which is expertly woven into the story. Also a great opportunity for people unfamiliar with Hawai'ian pidgin to experience it in literary form, and in a way that connects the pidgin to its roots in the number of languages employed by various ethnic groups cohabitating in early Hawai'i.