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. His work has appeared in McSweeney’s, Electric Literature and The Best American Nonrequired Reading, among others. ” Sharks in the Time of Saviours bursts with life. Kawai Strong Washburn was born and raised on the Hamakua coast of the Big Island of Hawai‘i. “As vivid as it is splendid … This may be his debut, but he proves himself an old hand at dissecting the ways in which places – our connections to them, our disconnections from them – break us and remake us … With prose that can be breathy and sweaty in one paragraph before gliding softly and tenderly into the next, this passionate writer cries out for us to see Hawaii in its totality: as a place of proud ancestors and gods and spirits, but also of crumbling families and hopelessness and poverty.
Sentences sparkle, the narrative voices remain distinctive and complete, and the deep notes of magic sound under the realism of poverty and loss. ” Sharks in the Time of Saviours is a brilliant novel and one of the most engaging and memorable books I’ve read this year.
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