{"product_id":"everything-to-the-sea-an-unforgettable-love-story-about-loss-betrayal-homecoming-and-second-chances-9781526687791","title":"Everything to the Sea: An unforgettable love story about loss, betrayal, homecoming and second chances","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA girl-meets-boy story with a difference by a major debut talent, set against the captivating backdrop of contemporary Hawaii: exploring love and loss, escape and return, disaster and rebuilding \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘A gorgeous debut\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e’ \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eIRISH INDEPENDENT\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘The kind of talent that appears once in a generation’ \u003c\/b\u003eJUNOT DIAZ, author \u003ci\u003eThe Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘A survival story, a coming-of-age story, and a love story’\u003c\/b\u003e CARO CLAIRE BURKE, author of \u003ci\u003eYesteryear\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘Irresistible ... I was utterly entranced\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e’ \u003c\/b\u003eJENNIE GODFREY, author of \u003ci\u003eThe List of Suspicious Things\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHIS IS HOW THE STORY OF JANE AND KENJI GOES.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHome in Hilo, Hawai‘i for one final summer, Jane is working and saving for her senior year before she leaves her island town behind forever. At first, she doesn’t remember Kenji. To Kenji, she’s unforgettable: Janie, nose perpetually buried in her old high school sketchbooks. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHEY WILL FALL IN LOVE.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJane tells herself it’s only a fling – one perfect, carefree summer, on her way to achieving her dream of becoming an architect and moving to the continent. But as the days pass, the pair find themselves falling hard into first love. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAND THEN EVERYTHING WILL VANISH.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThen tragedy strikes – when a tsunami destroys much of Hilo, leaving both Jane and Kenji convulsed with grief. While Jane leaves, unable to look back, Kenji stays, bound by duty to rebuild their community.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWHEN ALL IS LOST, HOW DO WE FIND OUR WAY HOME?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSeven years later, Jane and Kenji collide again – and find that the past is not as easily laid to rest as they thought.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA decade-long story of home and belonging, destruction and renewal, betrayal and forgiveness, \u003ci\u003eEverything to the Sea \u003c\/i\u003eis an unforgettable love story - about what it means to rebuild a life worthy of what was lost.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘A story that tests and redefines every form of loyalty: to love, to family, to land, to the future’ \u003c\/b\u003eAUBE REY LESCURE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘Compassionate and merciless, beautiful and devastating, honest and hopeful’ \u003c\/b\u003eJULIA PHILLIPS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘Tender, gut wrenching and propulsive, a balm for the soul’ \u003c\/b\u003eHARRIET CONSTABLE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘Both a love story and a testament to the power of community’ \u003c\/b\u003eCHLOE BENJAMIN\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eREADERS LOVE \u003ci\u003eEVERYTHING TO THE SEA\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘My book of the year ... \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis is a book I will be putting in everyone’s hands\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘I loved this book'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘Had me captivated ... Utterly beautiful\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Incredible ... I can't wait for more readers to fall in love with it' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘I RACED through this ... Heartbreaking, uplifting, life-affirming!' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘This is why I love to read ...  I would recommend to anyone who enjoyed Gabrielle Zevin’s \u003ci\u003eTomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow\u003c\/i\u003e’ \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eDetails\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN13: 9781526687791\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNumber of Pages: 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEdition: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublication Date: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublication City, Country: London, United Kingdom\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDimensions (cm): 23.2(H)x15.2(L)x2.8(W)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWeight (gm): \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlicia Upano is the recipient of the 2018 James Jones First Novel Fellowship and the fiction winner of the 2016 \u003ci\u003ePoets \u0026amp; Writers\u003c\/i\u003e Maureen Egen Writers Exchange Award Hawai‘i. Her creative work has been supported by the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Jentel Artist Residency, The Community of Writers at Squaw Valley, Southampton Writers Conference, and Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation. Born and raised in Hawai‘i, Upano currently resides on O‘ahu with her family. \u003ci\u003eEverything to the Sea \u003c\/i\u003eis her debut novel. \u003cbr\u003ealiciaupano.com\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eReviews\u003c\/h4\u003eI was utterly entranced by this beautiful novel. Expansive, yet deeply personal, it moves seamlessly between themes of grief, love, family, and duty with an authenticity and humanness that is irresistible -- JENNIE GODFREY\u003cbr\u003eThe gorgeous debut by Upano throws Jane - who is home on the island of Hilo, Hawaii, for one last summer before becoming an architect - together with Kenji, who remembers her from high school. The intoxication of unexpected first love is cut brutally short by a tsunami that destroys much of the island and forces hard decisions * IRISH INDEPENDENT *\u003cbr\u003eBoth storm and siren-song, a profoundly moving debut full of calamities, heartbreaks and boundless sweeping love. Alicia Upano is the kind of talent that appears once in a generation -- JUNOT DIAZ\u003cbr\u003eThis is the rare novel that activates all of your senses. It's a survival story, a coming-of-age story, and a love story. Each thread left me breathless - and Upano wove it all together into a novel that will stay with me for a long time -- CARO CLAIRE BURKE\u003cbr\u003eA tender, beautifully written story of love, loss and the weight of home * WOMAN \u0026amp; HOME *\u003cbr\u003eAlicia Upano’s sensitive and deeply-felt debut explores the aftermath - personal, cultural, and environmental - of a crisis in one Hawai’i town. Both a love story and a testament to the power of community,\u003ci\u003e Everything to the Sea\u003c\/i\u003e offers a meditation on grief as well as a hopeful vision of rebuilding -- CHLOE BENJAMIN\u003cbr\u003eThe type of story that is so necessary for humanity at this moment, brimming full of compassion, which teaches us to be gentle with ourselves in the aftermath of spectacular tragedy. I couldn’t stop reading and found myself thinking about Kenji and Jane in the moments I was away from the book. Tender, gut wrenching and propulsive, \u003ci\u003eEverything to the Sea\u003c\/i\u003e is balm for the soul. It's a powerful love story and ultimately a life affirming tale of what can grow out tremendous loss - but only if we can learn to forgive ourselves -- HARRIET CONSTABLE\u003cbr\u003eWith controlled, incisive prose, Alicia Upano harnesses and unleashes the fury of nature and life-defining love - and what happens when the two come in opposition. Hyper-rooted in place and the social fabric of an island community, \u003ci\u003eEverything to the Sea\u003c\/i\u003e is a story of unthinkable upheaval that tests and redefines every form of loyalty: to love, to family, to land, to the future. An arresting, profound, and fiercely beautiful debut -- AUBE REY LESCURE\u003cbr\u003eWith all the force of a tidal wave and the tenderness of a romance, \u003ci\u003eEverything to the Sea\u003c\/i\u003e tells two equally powerful stories of an island community and two young lovers, whose fates are swept together by a tsunami. At once epic and human-scale, this novel places our lives, families, passions, and tragedies within a turbulent landscape. It is compassionate and merciless, beautiful and devastating, honest and ultimately hopeful. Alicia Upano has made an extraordinary debut -- JULIA PHILLIPS\u003cbr\u003eWith equal parts wisdom and wit, \u003ci\u003eEverything to the Sea\u003c\/i\u003e tells about love as it’s felt when frustrated or betrayed in the face of too many other needed and urgent things, and the many ways that one finds family in surprising, beautiful turns. Alicia Upano’s striking debut will simultaneously quicken your pulse and force you to slow down, take a deep breath - this is a life-affirming, heartbreaking novel you won’t want to miss -- JEAN CHEN HO\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEverything to the Sea\u003c\/i\u003e is an epic and deeply moving love story, as much about how grief changes us as it is about how great love can do the same. In stunning and stylish prose, Alicia Upano follows the aftermath of tragedy – survival, recovery, and transformation – taking up the question of what we owe to the places and people we call home -- KRISTIANA KAHAKAUWILA\u003cbr\u003eSweeping through time and across distance,\u003ci\u003e Everything to the Sea\u003c\/i\u003e is a beautiful and soul-stirring novel about the way that forces beyond our control can ravage a place or a landscape but not, ultimately, the heart -- CRISTINA HENRIQUEZ\u003cbr\u003eThis deeply emotional epic of undying love follows Hawaiian lovers Jane and Kenji in the aftermath of a devastating tsunami. 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