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Kaui Hart Hemmings
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Kaui Hart Hemmings

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Kaui Hart Hemmings is the author of the novel, The Descendants, which was made into a major motion picture, and the critically acclaimed short-story collection House of Thieves. Her writing has appeared in Zoetrope, Best American Voices 2006, and Best American Nonrequired Reading 2004. Hemmings grew up in Hawaii and lives with her husband and daughter in San Francisco.

Books by Kaui Hart Hemmings

The Possibilities

From the author of The Descendants, a novel about grief, love and parenthood.

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The Descendants

Now a major motion picture starring George Clooney.

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