Delicately balancing Hawaiian myth and the broken American dream, Kawai Strong Washburn’s Sharks in the Time of Saviours has been hailed by novelist Marlon James as a “ferocious debut” in which “old myths clash with new realities, love is in a ride or die with grief [and] faith rubs hard against magic”. Kawai joins Winnie Dunn to discuss his lush, virtuosic portrait of Hawaiian identity, mythology and diaspora that examines what it means to be both of a place and a stranger in it.

<p>Delicately balancing Hawaiian myth and the broken American dream, Kawai Strong Washburn&rsquo;s&nbsp;<em>Sharks in the Time of Saviours</em>&nbsp;has been hailed by novelist Marlon James as a &ldquo;ferocious debut&rdquo; in which &ldquo;old myths clash with new realities, love is in a ride or die with grief [and] faith rubs hard against magic&rdquo;. Kawai joins Winnie Dunn to discuss his lush, virtuosic portrait of Hawaiian identity, mythology and diaspora that examines what it means to be both of a place and a stranger in it.</p>

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