This is the story of Jane and Kenji. It''s a story about love, and a story about disaster. It''s summer on Hilo, and ambitious, driven Jane Yoon is home from college. Waiting tables one evening, she crosses paths with Kenji Lee, a boy from her childhood whose present and future are firmly rooted on their little island. Over the summer, a spark ignites between this unlikely pairing. But when a tsunami hits the island, Jane and Kenji are plunged into grief, and torn apart. While Kenji knows he has to stay and rebuild their home, Jane flees - and doesn''t look back. Seven years later, far from home, Jane and Kenji''s paths cross again - by chance, or by fate? Everything to the Sea is a tale of regret and remembrance, home-building and homecoming, betrayal and forgiveness. And above all, it is a story about love: what it survives, and what it can rebuild.

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Alicia Upano

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'Compassionate and merciless, beautiful and devastating, honest and hopeful' JULIA PHILLIPS
**'The kind of talent that appears once in a generation'** JUNOT DIAZ
**'A story that tests and redefines every form of loyalty: to love, to family, to land, to the future'** AUBE REY LESCURE
**'Tender, gut wrenching and propulsive, a balm for the soul'** HARRIET CONSTABLE
**'Both a love story and a testament to the power of community'** CHLOE BENJAMIN
**'The rare novel that activates all of your senses - a survival story, a coming-of-age story, and a love story'** CARO CLAIRE BURKE
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THIS IS HOW THE STORY OF JANE AND KENJI GOES.**
Home in Hilo, Hawai'i for one final summer, Jane is working and saving for her senior year before she leaves her island town behind forever. At first, she doesn't remember Kenji. To Kenji, she's unforgettable: Janie, nose perpetually buried in her old high school sketchbooks.

**THEY WILL FALL IN LOVE.**
Jane tells herself it's only a fling - one perfect, carefree summer, on her way to achieving her dream of becoming an architect and moving to the continent. But as the days pass, the pair find themselves falling hard into first love.

**AND THEN EVERYTHING WILL VANISH.**
Then tragedy strikes - when a tsunami destroys much of Hilo, leaving both Jane and Kenji convulsed with grief. While Jane leaves, unable to look back, Kenji stays, bound by duty to rebuild their community.

**WHEN ALL IS LOST, HOW DO WE FIND OUR WAY HOME?**
Seven years later, Jane and Kenji collide again - and find that the past is not as easily laid to rest as they thought.

A decade-long story of home and belonging, destruction and renewal, betrayal and forgiveness, Everything to the Sea is an unforgettable love story - about what it means to rebuild a life worthy of what was lost.

READERS LOVE EVERYTHING TO THE SEA
**'I loved this book'
'Incredible ... I can't wait for more readers to fall in love with it'
'I RACED through this ... Heartbreaking, uplifting, life-affirming!'
'This is why I love to read ... I would recommend in particular to anyone who enjoyed Gabrielle Zevin's Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow'**