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. Stepping Out in the Right Direction

Alexander Payne directing George Clooney in the Descendants There's No Place Like Home

Star Bulletin article on film adaptation Hawaii Lands Film

Honolulu Advertiser article on Alexander Payne set to direct The Descendants 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.

Sofia Coppola's Top Eleven of 2007

The Descendants is #1 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

Searchlight finds 'Descendants'

Fox Searchlight and Alexander Payne to produce Hemmings' debut novel

The Descendants is a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice

The Descendants wins Elle Magazine's Readers' Prize 2007

Jane Magazine

Jane Staffers list the Descendants as a Favorite Book

Nob Hill Gazette

SF Weekly

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

Time Out New York

“Hawaiian Punch"

7x7 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