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Praise for
The Descendants
“Audaciously comic . . . Hemmings channels the voiceof her befuddled middle-aged hero with virtuosity.”
—THE NEW YORKER
“The beauty of this novel is that you care aboutMatthew King. . . .This book is a rousing success.”
—ELLE (READER’S PRIZE)
“Without being told, I’d never have imagined this wasa rst novel.
The Descendants
is assured, touching, andintelligent.”
—LIONEL SHRIVER,
author of
So Much for All That
and
We Need to Talk about Kevin
“To literature’s collection of marvelous, larger-than-lifeparents, add
The Descendants
’ wondrous Matt King.At one moment full of tenderness, at the next sayingthings to his daughters that would horrify you if they weren’t so shockingly funny, he is at the center of thisbeguiling, very poignant novel of a man’s last-ditcheffort to become a father.”
—
ANN PACKER,
author of Songs Without Words
The Descendants
A novel by Kaui Hart Hemmings
Fortunes have changed for the King family, descendants of Hawaiian royalty and one of the state’s largest landowners.Matthew King’s daughters—Scottie, a feisty ten-year-old,and Alex, a seventeen-year-old recovering drug addict—areout of control, and their charismatic, thrill-seeking mother, Joanie, lies in a coma after a boat-racing accident. She willsoon be taken off life support. As Matt gathers his wife’sfriends and family to say their nal goodbyes, a difcultsituation is made worse by the sudden discovery that there’sone person who hasn’t been told: the man with whom Joaniehad been having an affair. Forced to examine what they owenot only to the living but to the dead, Matt, Scottie, andAlex take to the road to nd Joanie’s lover, on a memorable journey that leads to unforeseen humor, growth, and pro-found revelations.
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