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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 with a wealth of talent and a true artist's eye. --Victor LaValle author of The ChangelingIn 1995 Kailua-Kona Hawaii on a rare family vacation seven-year-old Nainoa FSharks 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 with a wealth of talent and a true artist's eye. --Victor LaValle author of The ChangelingIn 1995 Kailua-Kona Hawaii on a rare family vacation seven-year-old Nainoa Flores falls overboard a cruise ship into the Pacific Ocean. When a shiver of sharks appears in the water everyone fears for the worst. But instead Noa is gingerly delivered to his mother in the jaws of a shark marking his story as the stuff of legends.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 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.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....more