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Clio, a native Hawaiian familiar with the enchanted world of spirits in her aunt's teachings, flees Hawaii to find the real world, only to return home to try to reconcile the varied forces in her life. Reprint. 17,500 first printing.
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Like her much-acclaimed previous novels, Susanna Moore's Sleeping Beauties is set in Hawaii, whose shimmering beauty and melancholy traditions are both seductive and dangerously hard to leave. Or so they prove for Clio, who marries a well-known Hollywood actor--providing her with the promise of escape from the entanglements of island life.
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