ANDERSON TEPPER, Vanity Fair Every once in a while, a debut novel is born into the world singing notes so unexpectedly pitch-perfect and melodic that reading it feels like a marvel. "Mixes hardscrabble Hawaiian reality with flights of wonder and the supernatural in a way that is wholly original." KAUI HART HEMMINGS, O: The Oprah Magazine IMBOLO MBUE, The New York Times Book Review "It's fitting that Sharks in the Time of Saviors, the radiant debut novel by Kawai Strong Washburn, immediately grips you in its jaws, plunges you into Hawaiian waters, and finally releases you, breathless and changed.The true magic of this tale can be felt in how Washburn alchemizes Hawaiian myth and lore into a modern family epic.There's something bewitching, too, in Washburn's prose-the furious, lively spell of it." "With prose that can be breathy and sweaty in one paragraph before gliding softly and tenderly into the next, this passionate writer cries out for us to see Hawaii in its totality: as a place of proud ancestors and gods and spirits, but also of crumbling families and hopelessness and poverty.
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