The Whiteness of Bones

Looking for her place in the alluring world outside the palm groves of her idyllic home in Hawaii, Mamie Clark visits her aunt in New York. As she makes her way through the treacherousness of a society obsessed with drugs, sex, money, and power, she seeks a reconciliation with her own island truths.

Susanna Moore is from Hawaii but now lives in New York City. She is the author of the novels <b>In the Cut, The Whiteness of Bones, Sleeping Beauties</b>, and <b>My Old Sweetheart</b>, which won the Ernest Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for First Fiction, and the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. A nonfiction travel book, <b>I Myself Have Seen It</b>, will be published by the National Geographic Society in 2003.