“ Sharks in the Time of Saviors is set in Hawaii with a native Hawaiian family dealing with race, class and poverty all the while being fiercely loyal to each other and their land.The string of torches plodded along the ridge, winking between the trees, dipping, then rising, until all at once the flames snuffed out. Marching slow on their way up the ridge, headed for the black back of the valley and whatever waited there for undead kings in all the damp and darkness. We’d heard of the night marchers but always assumed it was only a myth, part of a hymn of what had been lost to Hawai‘i, these ghosts of the long-dead ali‘i. Green and white, flickering, it must have been fifty, and as we watched we saw the lights for what they were: fires. Out on top of the far ridge of Waipi‘o a long line of trembling lights had appeared, slowly dipping and rising as they moved along the valley’s crown. “Stop messing around, lolo.”Īnd I did, and what I saw yanked me tight. My tits swung in against his left biceps and my hair fell down across his shoulder and even though I was scared I felt sexy and almost wanted to pull him into me, right there, never mind the danger.
I didn’t know what he saw-I was still coming out of some sort of fog, still rubbing my thighs together for the tingle there, the last of the oiled rush of our love-but then your father We were on top of our sleeping bags, the cool air minting our dampness, when your father’s face got serious and he rolled away from me. 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. 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. 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 instead, Noa is gingerly delivered to his mother in the jaws of a shark, marking his story as the stuff of legends. When a shiver of sharks appears in the water, everyone fears for the worst. In 1995 Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, on a rare family vacation, seven-year-old Nainoa Flores falls overboard a cruise ship into the Pacific Ocean.
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