Shark in the time of saviors7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() But midway through, the story does a perfect, gradual pirouette to become both a tighter, smaller story about the struggles of a complex, flawed family while also expanding into this much, much bigger, weirder, older story about Hawaii itself. Magical healers, old Hawaiian gods, sharks rescuing children. sethįrom the outset of this incredible debut novel, I really thought I knew what sort of book I was getting into. A thoroughly unexpected, gorgeous, and devastating novel that I truly loved every single word of. Right out of the gate it's filled with magical healers, old Hawaiian gods, and sharks with unharmed kids in their mouths - feels pretty weird, right? But - without giving even an ounce of anything away - it does such an amazing, beautiful pivot - a perfect pirouette - right in the middle, becoming both a tighter, smaller story about the struggles of an incredible, vividly real family while also expanding into this much, much bigger, weirder, older story about Hawaii itself. I foolishly thought that I knew the road this novel was taking me on & what type of a book I was reading when I began. ![]()
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