The Wayfinder Drew Sawyer and where dragons were once

and where dragons were once said to lurk

surviving an elephant stampede while running into an ex)

As seen in The Paris Review

a formidable socialist activist defying house arrest

Lara Pawson’s merciless and exquisite prose adorns everyday objects with the violence of history – the savage comedy by which living creatures have become broken

The Wayfinder Drew Sawyer and where dragons were onceFrom the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Orphan Masters Son comes a mythic masterpiece and historical epic about a girl from a remote Tongan island who becomes her people's queen. Young Korero has spent her entire life on an island so remote its inhabitants have forgotten the word for stranger. When a mysterious visitor lands on the island, her people are desperate and on the brink of starvation. But the wayward stranger offers a choice: they can