THE WAYFINDER

THE WAYFINDER is a magnificent Polynesian epic about family, violence, and environmental degradation. Set in Tonga and Aoteoroa, it follows two families in completely different situations.

Korero's people are refugees from Aoteoroa who have endured generational hardship. Now, at the margin of the world, they've found shelter on an island so remote and impoverished that no one will trouble them. They live in an equal society, one without violence, but as resources dwindle, they must seek our new pastures and confront the outside world. The counterpoint to K?rero's people is the Tu'itonga of Tonga. Here the king of Tonga struggles to balance his people's warring ways. In an attempt to shield them from these horrors, he introduces them to poetry, navigation and birding, but he can only protect them for so long. Adam Johnson is the winner of a Whiting Award and Fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts and the American Academy in Berlin, he is the author of several books, including Fortune Smiles, which won the National Book Award, and the novel The Orphan Master's Son, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. His stories have appeared in Esquire, GQ, Playboy, Harper's Magazine, Granta, The Paris Review, The Best American Short Stories, The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy and have been recognized with the Story Prize, The Sunday Times Short Story Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. He was born in South Dakota and is an enrolled member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe.