This Month’s Read Local SoCal Pick

This August, Read Local SoCal is reading The Killing Spell, the debut fantasy from Shay Kauwe. Two centuries after a catastrophic flood drowned the Hawaiian islands, the surviving clans have built a new homeland on the edge of Los Angeles. When LA’s most prominent Filipino activist is killed by a death spell that can only exist in Hawaiian, young clan leader Kea Petrova becomes the prime suspect. It’s a murder mystery built from ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi. Read along with us all month.

“I tore through this book and loved every second. Shay Kauwe is a talent to watch.” — Rebecca Roanhorse, New York Times bestselling and Hugo Award-winning author

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