![]() Claire Vaye Watkins, author of Gold, Fame, Citrus ![]() Kawai Strong Washburn’s vision is searing, his talent explosive, his heart beating loud and proud on every page. Sharks in the Time of Saviours is a lush, virtuosic novel with breathless scope and lasting depth. Sharks in the Time of Saviours is a volcanic powerhouse of a debut. Washburn is a virtuoso who will dizzy and enchant you with sentences that are crazy lyrical but never distract from the raw, comic, devastating, loving familial magic that is the heart of the book. This is the story of a family that becomes the story of the islands, as he brilliantly brings to life the culture and history and politics and geography and myths of a place that most people don’t know outside of glossy postcards and beachside vacations. Kawai Strong Washburn has written the great Hawaiian novel. Marlon James (author of Black Leopard, Red Wolf) ![]() All told with daredevil lyricism to burn. Old myths clash with new realities, love is in a ride or die with grief, faith rubs hard against magic, and comic flips with tragic so much they meld into something new. Sharks In The Time of Saviours is the novel you never knew you were waiting for. ![]() Its pages shoot off crackles and sparks, and you come out of it changed. Washburn is an extraordinarily brilliant new talent. It’s so good it hurts and hurts to where it heals. Sharks in the Time of Saviours bursts with life. ![]()
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