Song of the Exile

Song of the Exile by Kiana Davenport.

The January book for my book club.

This one was very emotionally powerful. It's about several people who live in Hawaii around the time of World War II, and their relationships and what the war does to them.
Two of them end up as prisoners of the Japanese during the war, and that's largely where the gruesome part comes in.

I probably would not have gotten all the way through the book if it hadn't been for the book club. It was well enough written that I'm searching out some of Davenport's other books (I ordered her Shark Dialogues off of Half.com and am expecting it soon.