But midway through, the story does a perfect, gradual pirouette to become both a tighter, smaller story about the struggles of a complex, flawed family while also expanding into this much, much bigger, weirder, older story about Hawaii itself. Magical healers, old Hawaiian gods, sharks rescuing children. sethįrom the outset of this incredible debut novel, I really thought I knew what sort of book I was getting into. A thoroughly unexpected, gorgeous, and devastating novel that I truly loved every single word of. Right out of the gate it's filled with magical healers, old Hawaiian gods, and sharks with unharmed kids in their mouths - feels pretty weird, right? But - without giving even an ounce of anything away - it does such an amazing, beautiful pivot - a perfect pirouette - right in the middle, becoming both a tighter, smaller story about the struggles of an incredible, vividly real family while also expanding into this much, much bigger, weirder, older story about Hawaii itself. SIGNED by the author.I foolishly thought that I knew the road this novel was taking me on & what type of a book I was reading when I began. Indie Next Pick Sharks in the Time of Saviors by Kawai Strong Washburn featuring an IBD-exclusive cover with a map stepback and extra bound-in material including a conversation between Kawai and Tommy Orange, a conversation between Kawai and Marlon James, and a reading group guide. When supernatural events revisit the Flores family in Hawai’i―with tragic consequences―they are all forced to reckon with the bonds of family, the meaning of heritage, and the cost of survival. But as time passes, this supposed divine favor begins to drive the family apart: Nainoa, working now as a paramedic on the streets of Portland, struggles to fathom the full measure of his expanding abilities further north in Washington, his older brother Dean hurtles into the world of elite college athletics, obsessed with wealth and fame while in California, risk-obsessed younger sister Kaui navigates an unforgiving academic workload in an attempt to forge her independence from the family’s legacy. Nainoa’s family, struggling amidst the collapse of the sugarcane industry, hails his rescue as a sign of favor from ancient Hawaiian gods―a belief that appears validated after he exhibits puzzling new abilities. But instead, Noa is gingerly delivered to his mother in the jaws of a shark, marking his story as the stuff of legends. When a shiver of sharks appears in the water, everyone fears for the worst. In 1995 Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, on a rare family vacation, seven-year-old Nainoa Flores falls overboard a cruise ship into the Pacific Ocean. Sharks in the Time of Saviors is a groundbreaking debut novel that folds the legends of Hawaiian gods into an engrossing family saga a story of exile and the pursuit of salvation from Kawai Strong Washburn.
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