![]() ![]() A handful of different voices narrate the story, a blue-collar family epic with a dose of magical realism, set in Hawaii. One of the central characters in his debut novel, Sharks in the Time of Saviors, climbs as a form of spiritual release. While doing this interview Thursday was Washburn’s idea, meeting at the climbing gym was mine. ![]() ![]() It might not be snowing, but it sure ain’t Hawaii. And while he’s lived lots of other places since coming to the mainland after high school-Portland, D.C., and San Fran among them-the frozen tundra was something else.Īnd yet, here he is, inside a climbing gym that used to be an actual ice warehouse (Vertical Endeavors on Minneapolis’s Eat Street) on a midwinter Thursday, with temps well below zero. Washburn, 39, is a native of the Big Island of Hawaii. “But given there’s heavy snow in the forecast, traffic could be bad. “Friday could work as a meeting time,” he’d conceded over email. The author won’t admit it, but I think he’s scared… of snow. Kawai Strong Washburn does not want to do this interview on Friday, even though it makes more sense planning-wise. Novelist Kawai Strong Washburn at Vertical Endeavors ![]()
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