![]() ![]() Like any human designated as a chosen one, Noa will eventually have to reveal his true nature to the masses he has come to save. The novel opens in 1995, as a mother, Malia, is telling her son Noa that at his birth, “the Kingdom of Hawai’i had long been broken,” and “the gods were hungry for change.” The change, Malia believed, would be Noa, who was conceived on a beach just as a parade of long-dead kings was marching with torches up a ridge, in their direction. His characters live in a modern yet mystical version of the archipelago, one whose essence no conqueror can ever fully eradicate. But Washburn has no interest in the Hawaii of resorts and honeymoons, thank goodness. ![]() ![]() The characters in Kawai Strong Washburn’s singular debut novel, “Sharks in the Time of Saviors,” live in a place with a name: Hawaii. Those first humans to walk the earth felt the presence of things unseen, heard the whispers of spirits and feared nothing, for they knew life and death were intertwined and the dead were a part of them - their past, present and future. A time when no separation existed between our forebears and the trees and rivers and mountains that surrounded them. There once was a time when places had no names. SHARKS IN THE TIME OF SAVIORS By Kawai Strong Washburn ![]()
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