A portrait of three women connected through one man in the aftermath of his murder—a stunning literary achievement and the explosive and highly anticipated debut novel from a beloved, award-winning memoirist. If you love Emma Cline and Rebecca Makkai, you do not want to miss Books Over Drinks with T Kira Madden! REVIEWS: “To read T Kira Madden is to feel your insides endlessly shifting, between barbed and rage-simmering to amused and serene. This brilliant and ever-expanding novel evoked fervent head nods, internal screams, and stretches of pondering. I would follow T Kira anywhere.” – Chanel Miller, New York Times bestselling author of Know My Name: A Memoir “Epic in its scope, intimate in its evocation, Whidbey reads like a thriller, compels like a mystery and regarding the human condition, converses with the classics. It’s hard to believe a first-time novelist produced a work as soulful and insightful as Whidbey; then again, one comes away certain that no other writer than T Kira Madden could have composed so profound an accounting. This is the book everyone will be talking about.” – Adam Johnson, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winning author of The Orphan Master’s Son and Fortune Smiles “It is rare that in one writer you’ll find a virtuoso precision on the sentence level, wonderous compassion for character, an unflinching willingness to claw into the heart of human suffering and a propulsive, engaging structure. Reading Whidbey feels like witnessing a cosmic, unlikely happening, like the planets aligning. This book will break you open. Whidbey is Masterwork. In T Kira Māhealani Madden we are seeing a master at work.” – Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, New York Times bestselling author of Chain-Gang All-Stars and Friday Black “It is not enough to say that Whidbey is a masterpiece or T Kira Madden is a genius—it is, she is. But how lucky we are to have such a radically empathetic novel about pain and justice; such a rigorous, lucid accounting of the strangulation of violence and its slow, meticulous unwinding. Whidbey is an exceptional and staggering gift.” – Carmen Maria Machado, New York Times bestselling author of In the Dream House and Her Body and Other Parties ABOUT THE AUTHOR: T Kira Māhealani Madden is a diasporic Kanaka ‘Ōiwi (Native Hawaiian) writer and author of the acclaimed memoir Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls, which was named a New York Times Editors’ Choice, as well as a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize, and the Lambda Literary Award. She is the Founding Editor of No Tokens, a magazine of literature and art, and has received fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, Hedgebrook, Tin House, MacDowell, and Yaddo. Winner of the 2021 Judith A. Markowitz Award, she is an assistant professor at Hamilton College in Creative Writing and Indigenous studies and served as the Distinguished Writer in Residence at University of Hawai’i at Mānoa. Never been to Books Over Drinks?...
