Diamond Head

<p><strong><em>Diamond Head</em> is an intricate meditation on what is in our control and what is fate--and on whether children must bear the costs of their parents' mistakes. --Celeste Ng #1 <em>New York Times</em> bestselling author of <em>Everything I Never Told You </em>and<em> Little Fires Everywhere</em></strong><br/></p><p>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.</p><p>When Frank Leong is murdered his family is thrown into a perilous downward spiral. Left to rebuild in their patriarch's shadow the surviving members of the Leong family try their hand at a new ordinary life vowing to bury their gilded past. Still the island continues to whisper--fragmented pieces of truth and chatter until a letter arrives two decades later carrying a confession that shatters the family even further.</p><p>Now the Leongs' survival rests with young Theresa Frank Leong's only grandchild eighteen and pregnant the heir apparent to her ancestors' punishing knots.</p><p>Told through the eyes of the Leong's secret-keeping daughters and wives and spanning the Boxer Rebellion to Pearl Harbor to 1960s Hawaii <em>Diamond Head</em> is a breathtakingly powerful tale of tragic love shocking lies poignant compromise aching loss heroic acts of sacrifice and miraculous hope.</p>