{"product_id":"the-kikiloa-chronicles-erik-d-larson-9798994982808","title":"The Kikiloa Chronicles: A Literary Science Fiction Novel of Time Travel, Magical Realism and an Irrepressible Mitochondrial Eve","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKikiloa is Mitochondrial Eve, the 200,000-year-old mother of humanity and our lyrical first storyteller.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Moving, surprising time-travel story of the fight against entropy. Sharp prose, warm characterization, and the literary chops to make the heady ideas resonate at a human level.\" ⚡ Editor's Pick\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003e- BookLife Reviews (Publishers Weekly)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"An engaging time-travel romp that mashes up Jung and \u003cem\u003eDoctor Who\u003c\/em\u003e to masterful effect.\" OUR VERDICT: \u003c\/strong\u003e✓ \u003cstrong\u003eGET IT\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003e- Kirkus Reviews\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Imaginative, sincere, and bigger on the inside than it first appears.\" \u003c\/strong\u003e★★★★★ \u003cem\u003e- Literary Titan\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs a time surfer flickering across a trillion universes, Kiki is determined to discover an antidote to entropy before everything meaningful is lost.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd now she's a freckled fourteen-year-old trickster bounding across a San Francisco park to meet her kind, grounded friend Hazel, who Kiki believes can cause even death to pass people by. Probably.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen a cliff collapses beneath them and Kiki vanishes mid-fall, Hazel is left alone with their attacker to begin her contemporary coming-of-age, while Kiki's hopes unravel back to the trauma of her bleak beginnings as outcast and slave in a dystopian prehistoric world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut Kiki never lets up, whether lamenting a Hawaiian tsunami, alchemizing sniper attacks, telling quantum stories, weaving through highway pileups, going Jungian, or baking perfectly average cookies. And throughout, she spars with her infuriating, enigmatic mentor Paha, who believes surfing is elegy: all waves break, and fighting the end only creates suffering.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Kikiloa Chronicles\u003c\/em\u003e is Erik D. 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Defies genres beautifully.\" - Caroline, early reader\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFun. Fast. Deep. A voice you won't forget.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eContent Note: This story contains scenes of natural disasters with loss of life, gun violence with young teens in danger, and sexual oppression in a dystopian prehistoric setting. The scenes are not graphic, but readers sensitive to these themes may wish to know in advance.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhile there are teenage characters and strong adventure plotting, this is a character-driven literary novel for adults - and mature teen readers ready for it.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Erik D. 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