Smart and nervy Riley Brighton - whose existence is forever eclipsed by her older sister's presence.
Yet despite her favored status, both within the family and in the press, nobody loves her more than Riley. Statuesque, design savant, and family pet-eldest daughter Morgan Brighton is most celebrated of all.
Told through the eyes of the Leong’s secret-keeping daughters and wives and spanning The Boxer Rebellion to Pearl Harbor to 1960s Hawaii, Diamond Head is a breathtakingly powerful tale of tragic love, shocking lies, poignant compromise, aching loss, heroic acts of sacrifice and, miraculous hope.A dazzling and heartfelt novel about two sisters caught in their parents' ambition, the accident that brings it all crashing down, and the journey that follows.įrom rags to riches, sleepy Oregon to haute New York, they are the biracial Chinese American family that built Kaleidoscope, a glittering, 'global bohemian' shopping empire sourcing luxury goods from around the world. Now the Leong’s survival rests with young Theresa, Frank Leong’s only grandchild, eighteen and pregnant, the heir apparent to her ancestors’ punishing knots. Still, the island continues to whisper–fragmented pieces of truth and chatter, until a letter arrives two decades later, carrying a confession that shatters the family even further.
Left to rebuild in their patriarch’s shadow, the surviving members of the Leong family try their hand at a new, ordinary life, vowing to bury their gilded past. When Frank is murdered, his family is thrown into a perilous downward spiral. The parable of the red string of fate, the cord which binds one intended beloved to her perfect match, also punishes for mistakes in love, passing a destructive knot down the family line. But something ancient follows the Leongs to Hawaii, haunting them. You can read this before Diamond Head PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom.Ī sweeping debut spanning China to Hawaii that follows four generations of a wealthy shipping family whose rise and decline is riddled with secrets and tragic love–from a young, powerful new voice in fiction At the turn of the nineteenth-century, Frank Leong, a fabulously wealthy shipping industrialist, moves his family from China to the island of Oahu. Here is a quick description and cover image of book Diamond Head written by Cecily Wong which was published in April 14th 2015. Brief Summary of Book: Diamond Head by Cecily Wong
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