Kawika grew up with a name no one could place and a longing he couldn’t explain — for an island just out of reach, for a connection that seemed to exist before he could name it. Decades later, that longing leads him across continents, into the landscapes of Iceland, and finally to an island that appears on no map and defies every law of the natural world.

Malama Island is a luminous, quietly magical novel about the people and places that find us — and the ones we were always meant to find.