Flashes of kindness and empathy provide respite from the chaos and cruelty. Seeking home drains their dwindling resources but strengthens their trust in each other. Leilani’s seizures carry voices to her, while an alarming discovery makes her quest to unravel their message and escape from the camp increasingly urgent. To combat mounting chaos, the military herds those at large, including Leilani and Mike, into internment camps. Satellite-based GPS and other electronic communications systems fail, and only well-heeled tourists can buy their ways home. Nevertheless, her island heritage speaks to her and could be the key to understanding the cataclysmic technological disruptions changing the world. Lei-half-Hawaiian, half-white-still feels like an outsider three years after moving from California to Hilo. Hope for a promising epilepsy treatment brought Leilani, 16, and Mike, her ecologist father, to Honolulu when a global catastrophe plunges the world’s most isolated metropolitan area into chaos, they’re desperate to return to family on the Big Island of Hawaii-it won’t be easy.
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