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Kawai Strong Washburn

Sharks In The Time Of Saviors

Kawai Strong WashburnFiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

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Part 2, Chapters 10-13Chapter Summaries & Analyses

Part 2: “Ascension”

Chapter 10 Summary: “Dean, 2008, Spokane”

Dean leaves college and abandons his dream to be an NBA star. He is now working for a delivery company, loading and unloading boxes. He describes the humiliation of having to make a delivery at the college where he used to be a basketball star.

He honestly explains why he burned out, making it clear that drugs and alcohol were major factors in his descent: “Howbout the party in me started small and got bigger, just a little here and there and then epic, all the time epic, blackout epic” (136).

Chapter 11 Summary: “Nainoa, 2008, Portland”

Nainoa describes some of the patients he has saved with his mystical powers. His paramedic partner Erin suggests he should do more with his gifts: “You shouldn’t be in this station […] You should be in, I don’t know, a war hospital or a—a—Calcutta. Where there are thousands. Millions” (142). Nainoa responds, “I’m not Jesus” (142).

Nainoa revives a dead Labrador whose body he finds in an alley. The incident appears to be the peak of his powers. He comments, “Never before had I saved something so far gone, human or animal” (145). Soon after, his powers seem to desert him during a paramedic call for a pregnant woman who has been severely injured in a car accident.

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