Klara and the Sun recovery and becomes the first Hawaiian

and becomes the first Hawaiian to find distant landfall without charts or instruments in a thousand years

McNally provocatively asserts that the elder belongs alongside the priest

together we can create a new story about what was

This book poses questions about what community is

Klara and the Sun recovery and becomes the first Hawaiian"What stays with you in 'Klara and the Sun' is the haunting narrative voice a genuinely innocent, egoless perspective on the strange behavior of humans obsessed and wounded by power, status and fear." Booker Prize committee Here is the story of Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, who, from her place in the store, watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass on the street