Press

The Descendants sells in the U.K (Cape), Italy (Newton & Compton), Holland (Unieboek), Germany and to the Hebrew publishing house, Sifriat Ma’ariv. It has also been released as an audio book.

  • I’m a Daughter Now

    • Kaui’s essay in the U.K Guardian

  • Best of 2007

    • The San Francisco Chronicle and L.A Weekly list the Descendants as one of the best books of 2007.

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  • Sofia Coppola’s Top Eleven of 2007

    • The Descendants is #1

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    The U.K version of the Descendants releases January third. Published by Jonathan Cape it is also the Booksellers’ Choice for January.

  • Searchlight finds ‘Descendants’

    • Fox Searchlight and Alexander Payne to produce Hemmings’ debut novel

  • San Francisco Chronicle Great Island Reads
  • The Descendants featured in July’s Conde Nast Traveler

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  • Searchlight finds ‘Descendants’

    • Fox Searchlight and Alexander Payne to produce Hemmings’ debut novel

  • The Descendants is a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice

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    The Descendants wins Elle Magazine’s Readers’ Prize 2007

  • Jane Magazine

    • Jane Staffers list the Descendants as a Favorite Book
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  • Nob Hill Gazette

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  • SF Weekly

    • San Francisco’s best-kept secret, the foxy, hilarious, mean-girl mommy extraordinaire Kaui Hart Hemmings.

  • Time Out New York

    • “Hawaiian Punch”

  • 7×7 Hemmings’ Novel Idea

  • Daily Candy
  • Hartford Courant Yummy Summer Reading
  • The Chicago Tribune Hot Reads for the Summer
  • Book & Music Festival draws big-name buzz

    • San Francisco Magazine
    “Hemmings has a light, comedic touch and is especially good at nailing the mysteries of 21st-century adolescents…we find ourselves not only rooting for the Kings but hailing them.”

    Time Out New York

  • Summer Books

  • Time Out Dubai

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