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Diamond Head

  • 312 pages · about 5 hours
  • First published 2015
  • 4 editions

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1 About this book

A sweeping debut spanning from 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. But something ancient follows the Leongs to Hawaii, haunting them. The parable of the red string of fate, the cord that binds one intended beloved to her perfect match, also punishes for mistakes in love, passing a destructive knot down the family line.

  • Chinese Americans
  • Family life
  • Family secrets
  • Hawaii

2 About Cecily Wong

 

Cecily Wong is a writer best known for her novel Diamond Head, published by HarperCollins in 2015. Her work has also appeared in The Wall Street Journal, the LA Review of Books, Self Magazine, and Bustle. Wong is the co-author of Gastro Obscura: An Explorer’s Guide to Food and a writer at Atlas Obscura. Her second novel, Kaleidoscope, was published in 2022.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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