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As storms gather and the crowd huddles near the bay, Jane sketches and reflects on her predictable future—college, boredom, and returning to Honolulu—until a charged connection suggests love will come and the moment will later be swallowed by the sea. The narrative frames community bonds, family roles, and looming catastrophe.","[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nDedication  \nTo RGS, for life  \nTo RLD, for love  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nEpigraph  \nHer hair is upswept into a wave, a month before she is to lose everything to the sea.  \n—Juliet S. Kono, from Tsunami Years  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nContents  \nCover  \nTitle Page  \nDedication  \nEpigraph  \nPart 1: Initiation 1: Jane 2  \n3  \n4  \n5  \n6  \n7  \n8  \n9  \nPart 2: Split 10: Kenji 11  \n12  \n13  \n14  \nPart 3: Amplification  \n15: Jane  \n16: Kenji  \n17: Jane  \n18: Kenji  \n19: Jane  \n20: Kenji  \n21: Jane  \n22: Kenji  \n23: Jane  \n24: Kenji Part 4: Run-Up  \n25: Kenji  \n26: Jane  \n27: Kenji  \n28: Jane  \n29: Kenji  \n30: Jane  \n31: Kenji  \n32: Jane  \n33: Kenji  \n34: Jane  \n35: Kenji  \n36: Jane  \n37: Kenji  \n38: Jane  \nAuthor ’s Note  \nAcknowledgments About the Author Copyright  \nAbout the Publisher  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nPart 1  \nInitiation  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \n1  \nJane  \nBefore the wave, Jane doodles on a napkin behind a bar. The seaside restaurant sits on stilts tall enough to crest the highest recorded tide, and the view attracts customers. Beneath her hand, black ink bleeds on white—aquaint downtown detailed with precision, a hulking volcano hazy on the horizon.  \nJane is not really looking; she could sketch this town with her eyes closed. Before her now, summer as endless as the sea, predictable as the weather. Gray clouds obscure the otherwise amber sky, reflecting the broody bay. Rain breaks the glassy surface of the fishponds. Her personal forecast: three months of boredom until she returns to Honolulu with a season’s worth of cash, and finishes her final year of college.  \nThunder cracks over the bay, loud enough that the small crowd—a private party—turns, seeking lightning in the sky. None yet.  \nMost nights Jane waits tables in the main dining room above, enjoying the novelty of strangers. Tonight, she’s stationed on this lānai, half outdoorson the bottom floor. Old-timers, underdressed in slippers and T-shirts, pick at sautéed mushrooms from Hāmākua, ahi poke sprinkled with kukui nuts on wonton chips, and miso-marinated shishito peppers blackened with char. Lei pile atop a white-haired man’s torso, stacked high enough that green leaves and flowers crest his jaw. Retirement, Jane guesses. This will be her father or mother in a couple of decades. Not Jane, though. She hungers for the world.  \nThe space shifts with another round of welcomes. Jane’s eyes flit from napkin to newcomer, vaguely familiar, but she can’t place him. He greets the guest of honor with a half embrace, standing a head taller. The younger man’s face is angles and curves—square jaw, large eyes, high cheeks, plush mouth. Skin gleaming as an oiled koa bowl. Features and flesh proof of bloodlines from Asia and the Pacific, the result of generations in Hawai‘i. Akin to everyone in the room, including Jane.  \nBut also new.  \nAs if sensing her gaze, his eyes meet hers, and he nods in recognition. Her spine straightens, her fingertips hum. In this crowd, he collects the light.  \nThis is how the story goes: Jane will fall in love. And then all of this will vanish.  \nWalter Jr. appears at her elbow. They had been playmates as children and now have the awkward familiarity of estranged neighbors thrust together.  \nThen, as now, Walter Jr.’s got spiky hair, a mole on his cheek. His trimmed goatee a souvenir from his college life in Los Angeles. Walter Sr. owns the place, and his son, whom everyone calls Wally-Jun, is in charge for the evening.“Need anything?” he asks.  \nHer station is not so much a bar as a table with ice buckets. She surveys the half-filled wine bottles, the last pickings of beer, and volunteers torestock. She dislikes waiting around. But Wally-Jun tells her to keep her post.  \nHe leaves as the wet wind whips through, rain streaming in. Locals are not easily deterred by nature. The crowd huddles by inches and instinct. 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