I’ll just read for a couple of minutes, I won’t read for too long. So I know this conversation between these two is just going to be beautiful, Kawai is gonna start it off reading for a bit, and then they’re gonna have a conversation. Joining him in conversation with Kawai today is none other Tommy Orange, the author of the national bestselling and like, a list of so many awards, his novel There There, is just amazing. Kawai was born and raised on the Hamakua coast of the Big Island of Hawai’i, and his work has appeared in the best of American nonrequired reading, McSweeney’s, Electric Literature Recommended Reading among many others, and he was a 2015 Tin House Summer Scholar and a 2015 Bread Loaf Work Study Scholar, and we are so excited to have him here tonight. Please consider buying their books from your favorite local bookstore, or through Bookshop.Īllen: Today, we are very excited to welcome Kawai Strong Washburn, celebrating his debut novel Sharks in the Time of Saviors. The two discuss virtual book events, appreciating connection more than ever, and the miracle of being transported into another’s consciousness through reading.

DC bookstore mainstay Politics & Prose recently featured Kawai Strong Washburn, author of Sharks in the Time of Saviors, in conversation with Tommy Orange, author of There There.

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