The Kikiloa Chronicles

Kikiloa, both the 200,000-year-old Mitochondrial Eve and a modern teenage trickster, time-surfs across universes seeking an answer to time’s inevitable end. Perhaps her ordinary friend Hazel holds the key. This award-winning literary science fiction debut asks: Is it better to hope, or accept the end?

The Kikiloa Chronicles is the wildest surf trip imaginable, where you never know what the next wave brings, a glowing, complex, multilayered story packed with vivid characters. It spans present-day shenanigans in San Francisco and Marin County, the dystopian dawn of humanity in prehistoric Africa, and a cat-and-mouse game with an enigmatic mentor that stretches from a tsunami in pre-contact Hawaiʻi to the end of time itself. Holding it all together is Kiki: everywhere all at once, ancient beyond measure, flawed and lonely with plenty of charm.

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