Everything to the Sea
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Everything to the Sea
A 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
A 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
The kind of talent that appears once in a generation — JUNOT DIAZ
A story that tests and redefines every form of loyalty: to love, to family, to land, to the future — AUBE REY LESCURE
A survival story, a coming-of-age story, and a love story — CARO CLAIRE BURKE
Irresistible ... I was utterly entranced — JENNIE GODFREY
THIS IS HOW THE STORY OF JANE AND KENJI GOES.
Home 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.
THEY WILL FALL IN LOVE.
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. But as the days pass, the pair find themselves falling hard into first love.
AND THEN EVERYTHING WILL VANISH.
Then 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.
WHEN ALL IS LOST, HOW DO WE FIND OUR WAY HOME?
Seven years later, Jane and Kenji collide again — and find that the past is not as easily laid to rest as they thought.
A decade-long story of home and belonging, destruction and renewal, betrayal and forgiveness, Everything to the Sea is an unforgettable love story — about what it means to rebuild a life worthy of what was lost.
Compassionate and merciless, beautiful and devastating, honest and hopeful — JULIA PHILLIPS
Tender, gut wrenching and propulsive, a balm for the soul — HARRIET CONSTABLE
Both a love story and a testament to the power of community — CHLOE BENJAMIN
READERS LOVE EVERYTHING TO THE SEA
I loved this book
Incredible ... I can't wait for more readers to fall in love with it
I RACED through this ... Heartbreaking, uplifting, life-affirming!
This is why I love to read ... I would recommend in particular to anyone who enjoyed Gabrielle Zevin’s Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781526687791
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 14 July 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 28.0mm
Width: 152.0mm
Height: 232.0mm
Weight: 395g
Pages: 320
About the Author
Alicia Upano is the recipient of the 2018 James Jones First Novel Fellowship and the fiction winner of the 2016 Poets & Writers 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. Everything to the Sea is her debut novel.
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