Olivia: My Life of Exile in Kalaupapa

By Olivia R. Breitha

Book Overview

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0963138839
• ISBN13: 9780963138835
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Arizona Memorial Museum Assn
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.3" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

A Personal Story of a Life Interupted

This was the story of a young woman who became an old woman living in exile on Kaulapapa. While it was not well written, it was written by someone who through no fault of her own, left what she knew to build another life. At times I thought it focused on a lot of details, but then its the details that make our lives what they are. I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to see the personal side of forced isolation.

A story of survival

This is a quick read, not well written, but excellent nevertheless. Heartbreaking and uplifting at the same time. Olivia Breitha was a living breathing person, who had the worst happen to her, and yet she was able to find great joy, and a good life.

This book makes me cry each and every time I read it.

This was a great book that details a common disease that is often overlooked, leprosy. It is the autobiography of a truly inspirational person. The book captures my heart every time I read it. I often need to have a box of tissue nearby when my tears begin to flow as they often do as I read this book, my most cherished possession

A truly incredible piece of literature

I live in Hawaii on a island very close to the island where this book is set. Never before did I know of this story. This book is an emotional roller coaster that took me for a ride. As I turned each page I often had to reach for another tissue as I found myself in tears. Page after page, chapter after chapter brought me closer to my inner self. The emotions that this book brought out in me taught me the meaning of my life. This book is more than a mere book to me, it is my most precious treasure