{"product_id":"everything-to-the-sea","title":"Everything to the Sea","description":"\n\u003ctable align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"productDetailSmallElements\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Alicia 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\u003eEverything to the Sea\u003c\/i\u003e offers a meditation on grief as well as a hopeful vision of rebuilding.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eChloe Benjamin, New York Times bestselling author of The Immortalists\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Sweeping through time and across distance, \u003ci\u003eEverything 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.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCristina Henríquez, author of The Great Divide\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This deeply emotional epic of undying love follows Hawaiian lovers Jane and Kenji in the aftermath of a devastating tsunami.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePeople\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"With all the force of a tidal wave and the tenderness of a romance, \u003cem\u003eEverything to the Sea\u003c\/em\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.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJulia Phillips, bestselling author of Bear and Disappearing Earth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"With 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.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAube Rey Lescure, Women's Prize-shortlisted author of River East, River West\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eEverything to the Sea\u003c\/i\u003e is both 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.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJunot Diaz, New York Times bestselling author of This is How You Lose Her\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"With equal parts wisdom and wit, \u003cem\u003eEverything to the Sea\u003c\/em\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.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJean Chen Ho, author of Fiona and Jane\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eEverything to the Sea\u003c\/em\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.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKristiana Kahakauwila, author of This is Paradise\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"This deeply emotional epic of undying love follows Hawaiian lovers Jane and Kenji in the aftermath of a devastating tsunami.\"\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003ePeople\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart riveting love story, part coming-of-age tale, \u003ci\u003eEverything to the Sea\u003c\/i\u003e is a breathtaking debut novel spanning years and shores after a sudden tsunami devastates the island of Hawai'i and cuts short a young couple's budding romance--a deeply moving testament to the catastrophes love can endure.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis is how the story goes: Jane will fall in love. And then all of this will vanish.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHome for one final summer, Jane is working and saving cash for her senior year of college before she leaves her island town behind forever. At first, she doesn't remember Kenji, but he quickly becomes someone she can't forget: square jaw, a dimple in his cheek. A Hilo boy. To Kenji, she's Janie, nose perpetually buried in her old high school sketchbooks. Jane 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThen a tsunami sweeps their families out to sea, and their all-consuming affair breaks with the weight of grief, pulling them in opposite directions. Kenji remains in Hawai'i, bound by duty to rebuild their hometown. Jane, shattered by the loss, follows her best friend to California. For seven years, an ocean lies between them, until Jane and Kenji meet on another coast . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn prose that sparkles like sun on the water, Upano's debut novel tells the unforgettable story of two young people as they come of age, fall in love, forge new families, and try to find their way back together, again and again. \u003ci\u003eEverything to the Sea\u003c\/i\u003e is a moving portrait of our ability to overcome even the most devastating tragedies, when everything else is washed away.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations:\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/span\u003e 06\/01\/2026 pg. 80 (EAN 9780063437937, Hardcover) - *Starred Review\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eBooklist\u003c\/span\u003e 06\/01\/2026 (EAN 9780063437937, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eContributor Bio:\u003c\/strong\u003eUpano, Alicia\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAlicia Upano\u003c\/strong\u003e was born and raised in Hawai'i. She is the recipient of the \u003cem\u003ePoets \u0026amp; Writers\u003c\/em\u003e Maureen Egen Writers Exchange Award Hawai'i, the James Jones First Novel Fellowship, and a Bread Loaf-Rona Jaffe Scholarship. Her short fiction has appeared in \u003cem\u003eThe Massachusetts Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Southern Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Best Peace Fiction: A Social Justice Anthology\u003c\/em\u003e, and more. After years in Asia and both U.S. continental coasts, she now resides on O'ahu with her family. \u003cem\u003eEverything to the Sea\u003c\/em\u003e is her debut novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\n","brand":"William Morrow \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51496249098518,"sku":"9780063437937","price":36.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0857\/9910\/8886\/files\/9780063437937.jpg?v=1783058210","url":"https:\/\/lusper.myshopify.com\/products\/everything-to-the-sea","provider":"Lusperbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}