![]() ![]() ![]() Some of those writers have already begun singing his praises. ![]() Washburn grew up immersed in the rich, polyglot culture of the islands and draws his inspiration from the writers who have come before him the novel wears that influence as well as a newly coalescing American tradition that values multiplicity and preserving the spirit of local linguistics. Though Washburn is not native Hawaiian-his parents are originally from Oklahoma and Kansas but met there-the story draws from his childhood experiences on the Hamakua Coast of the Big Island of Hawaii. Is he the embodiment of ancient Gods, come to heal an ailing land and its people? Can he rescue his family from the threat of poverty, as the sugar industry collapses and his father loses his job? Nainoa’s journey-and those of his brother, Dean, and sister, Kaui-will take him far from home and back again in search of meaning, salvation, and a sense of belonging. When seven-year-old Nainoa Flores is saved from the sea by sharks off the coast of the island of Hawaii, he begins to believe he has special powers. In his debut novel, Sharks in the Time of Saviors, Kawai Strong Washburn mixes hardscrabble Hawaiian reality with flights of wonder and the supernatural in a way that is wholly original. ![]()
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