![]() ![]() They are helped along by Nainoa’s startling rescue. After the sugarcane plantation Malia’s husband Augie works at is shut down, the family are forced to move to another island to find work. Malia Flores and her family live on the east coast of Hawai‘i’s Big Island. This is an impulse that is also true of Washburn’s novel a story that offers interconnectedness as a hope in a profoundly-troubled time. By ensuring Nainoa grasps fully the miraculousness of his survival, Malia’s question does the same work as the sharks, holding him up alongside her in the narrative. Instead, the sharks carry him safely back to the boat. They are heading for Nainoa, and Malia knows what is coming, “pink and chummy ropes” in the water. As the boat circles round to rescue the seven-year-old, Malia jumps desperately into the ocean after him. He has fallen overboard during a pleasure cruise in Hawai‘i. ![]() “The shark was holding you gently, do you understand?” Malia asks her son, Nainoa, in the opening chapter of Sharks in the Time of Saviours. Joe Kenelm reviews Kawai Strong Washburn’s debut novel. ![]()
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