No Footprints in the Sand is a touching memoir from Henry Nalaielua (co-written by Sally-Jo Bowman). In 1936, at age 10, Henry was diagnosed with Hansen's disease (then known as leprosy), taken from his family on the Big Island and sent to Kalihi Hosital. Not many years later, Henry found himself shipped to Kalauapapa on the island of Molokai. Kalaupapa is (in)famous as the site of a remote Hansen's disease settlement, the place where Father Damien lived and worked. During its century of sorrow, over 8,000 patients were condemmed to live there. Henry is one of the last remaining, one of less than 30 patients who still reside at Kalaupapa. His memoir is one of the few shared by a Kalaupapa patient. Available from Watermark Publishing (www.bookshawaii.net).

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