The Kikiloa Chronicles
By Erik Larson
An epic story with the fun and metaphysical heft of a grown-up A Wrinkle in Time, the contemplative mythos of Circe, and the literary ambition of Cloud Atlas.
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I am Kikiloa.
I am Mitochondrial Eve, the grandmother of us all, a trillion-year-old girl who learned to time surf, riding the currents of meaning across uncounted branching realities. My quest: to stop entropy—the chaos that unravels existence and silences every story ever told.
Now, inhabiting my exuberant teenage body, I believe I’ve found the key to my long war in Hazel, a thoughtful San Francisco fourteen-year-old who may hold the inexplicable power to mend the fabric of reality. But my attempt to guide her puts us both in the crosshairs of Paha, a dangerously charismatic former mentor and fellow time surfer who believes that only a beautiful ending—the final, perfect death of a timeline—gives life its deepest meaning.
As the wave of cosmic consequence builds toward its breaking point, I must counter Paha’s philosophy of transcendent destruction… and confront the truth I’ve been running from across the millennia.
The Kikiloa Chronicles is the first book in a profound, genre-defying trilogy that weaves together humanity’s prehistoric birth, speculative Hawaiian mythology, and modern-day coming-of-age, asking what it means to live, and perhaps to love, at the end of time.
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