Praise for Sharks in the Time of Saviors"
Sharks in the Time of Saviors is the story of a family, a people, and a legend, all wrapped in one. Faith and grief, rage and love--this book pulses with all of it. Kawai Strong Washburn makes his debut displaying a wealth of talent and a true artist's eye." --Victor LaValle, author of
The Changeling
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Sharks in the Time of Saviors is the novel you never knew you were waiting for. 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 that they meld into something new. All told with daredevil lyricism to burn. A ferocious debut." --Marlon James, author of
Black Leopard, Red Wolf "
Sharks in the Time of Saviors bursts with life. It is bright and beautifully noisy. It's so good it hurts and hurts to where it heals. It is revelatory and unputdownable. Washburn is an extraordinarily brilliant new talent. This family saga is shark tooth sharp. Its pages shoot off crackles and sparks, and you come out of it changed. It is sublime." --Tommy Orange, author of
There There "
Sharks in the Time of Saviors is a lush, virtuosic novel with breathless scope and lasting depth. Kawai Strong Washburn's vision is searing, his talent explosive, his heart beating loud and proud on every page." --Claire Vaye Watkins, author of
Gold Fame Citrus "How do we confront our own deepest mysteries? Kawai Strong Washburn's
Sharks in the Time of Saviors is a feverish, booming orchestra of a novel that leaps off the cliff's edge into a world of delirious strangeness, fury, and hope. Read it for its tour de force storytelling. Read it because it is, quite simply, endlessly, mesmerizing." --Paul Yoon, author of
Snow Hunters "This is one of the finest debut novels I've read in years, a story about the resilience of family and resilience of home--a story at once lucid, original and transcendent. There is something of a Denis Johnson quality to Kawai Strong Washburn's writing, the way every sentence dances, moves in unexpected ways.
Sharks in the Time of Saviors is a piece of magic." --Omar El Akkad, author of
American War "Kawai Strong Washburn has written the great Hawaiian novel. He 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. A volcanic powerhouse of a debut." --Benjamin Percy, author of
Red Moon
