In this edgy, time-hopping debut, Hawaiian writer Peter Britos reimagines Hawaiʻi’s past and future through the journey of Estrella Kuemanu, a mnemo-navigator diving a thousand years back to stop an apocalyptic prophecy from being fulfilled. Armed with ancestral knowledge, she searches for Bishop Valdez and his sister Nalani, uncovering a tangled legacy of passion, curses, and dreams across generations. Britos brings a courageously fresh, Indigenous sensibility to the sci-fi realm with this first novel from his multiplatform Spiral Jungle universe. This groundbreaking work strips away popular, clichéd representations of the Hawaiian Islands and its peoples and reimagines Hawai‘i’s history and mythology in profoundly beautiful and relevant ways.

Peter J. Oluloa Britos

Softcover, 400pp.