"Alicia Upano's sensitive and deeply-felt debut explores the aftermath--personal, cultural, and environmental--of a crisis in one Hawai'i town. Both a love story and a testament to the power of community, Everything to the Sea offers a meditation on grief as well as a hopeful vision of rebuilding." - Chloe Benjamin, New York Times bestselling author of The Immortalists

"Sweeping through time and across distance, Everything to the Sea is a beautiful and soul-stirring novel about the way that forces beyond our control can ravage a place or a landscape but not, ultimately, the heart." - Cristina Henríquez, author of The Great Divide

"This deeply emotional epic of undying love follows Hawaiian lovers Jane and Kenji in the aftermath of a devastating tsunami." - People

"With all the force of a tidal wave and the tenderness of a romance, Everything to the Sea tells two equally powerful stories of an island community and two young lovers, whose fates are swept together by a tsunami. At once epic and human-scale, this novel places our lives, families, passions, and tragedies within a turbulent landscape. It is compassionate and merciless, beautiful and devastating, honest and ultimately hopeful. Alicia Upano has made an extraordinary debut." - Julia Phillips, bestselling author of Bear and Disappearing Earth

"With controlled, incisive prose, Alicia Upano harnesses and unleashes the fury of nature and life-defining love - and what happens when the two come in opposition. Hyper-rooted in place and the social fabric of an island community, Everything to the Sea is a story of unthinkable upheaval that tests and redefines every form of loyalty: to love, to family, to land, to the future. An arresting, profound, and fiercely beautiful debut." - Aube Rey Lescure, Women's Prize-shortlisted author of River East, River West

"Everything to the Sea is both storm and siren-song, a profoundly moving debut full of calamities, heartbreaks, and boundless sweeping love. Alicia Upano is the kind of talent that appears once in a generation." - Junot Diaz, New York Times bestselling author of This is How You Lose Her

"With equal parts wisdom and wit, Everything to the Sea tells about love as it's felt when frustrated or betrayed in the face of too many other needed and urgent things, and the many ways that one finds family in surprising, beautiful turns. Alicia Upano's striking debut will simultaneously quicken your pulse and force you to slow down, take a deep breath -- this is a life-affirming, heartbreaking novel you won't want to miss." - Jean Chen Ho, author of Fiona and Jane

"Everything to the Sea is an epic and deeply moving love story, as much about how grief changes us as it is about how great love can do the same. In stunning and stylish prose, Alicia Upano follows the aftermath of tragedy--survival, recovery, and transformation--taking up the question of what we owe to the places and people we call home." - Kristiana Kahakauwila, author of This is Paradise