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Everything to the Sea

An unforgettable love story about loss, betrayal, homecoming and second chances
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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... Read More
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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

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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.
aliciaupano.com

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