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Sharks in the Time of Saviors
by Kawai Strong Washburn
A Hawaiian boy is saved from drowning by a group of sharks, and finds himself able to heal people. The book starts with him and his family struggling to adjust to this new dynamic in his childhood, then transitions to him and his two siblings each going to the mainland and branching out into their own lives. Then, almost exactly at the midway point of the book, tragedy strikes the family, and the second half of the book is pretty much all about the family members dealing with grief in one way or another. Of these parts, the second (mainland) portion is by far the most interesting, and feels at times like a backdoor superhero-origin story. It's a shame, then, when the book switches gears into grief-handling, which did not interest me all that much.