The Pearl Diver by Jeff Talarigo

The Pearl Diver

Jeff Talarigo

240 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

fiction historical emotional reflective slow-paced
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In 1948, a nineteen-year-old pearl diver's dreams of spending her life combing the waters of Japan's Inland Sea are shattered when she discovers she has leprosy. By law, she is exiled to an island leprosarium, where she is stripped of her dignity ...

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