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A Literary Science Fiction Novel of Time Travel, Magical Realism and an Irrepressible Mitochondrial Eve
Independently Published
July 2026
On Sale: July 16, 2026
401 pages
ISBN: B0H46PYCZQ
EAN: 9781464236846
Kindle: B0GX314D3J
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Kikiloa is Mitochondrial Eve, the 200,000-year-old mother of humanity and our lonely, irrepressible first storyteller. She’s also a freckled fourteen-year-old trickster bounding across a San Francisco park to meet her ordinary friend Hazel, who Kiki believes can make death itself pass people by. Probably. As a time surfer flickering across a trillion universes, Kiki is determined to discover an antidote to entropy before everything meaningful is lost. And she hopes Hazel is the key. When a cliff collapses beneath them and Kiki vanishes mid-fall, Hazel is left facing the man who attacked them — and the start of a coming-of-age she never asked for. Meanwhile, Kiki’s hope unravels backward through her self-delusions, all the way to her bleak first life as an outcast enslaved in a dystopian prehistoric world. But Kiki never lets up. She laments a Hawaiian tsunami, alchemizes sniper attacks, tells quantum stories, weaves through highway pileups, goes Jungian, and bakes perfectly average cookies. And through it all, she spars with her infuriating, enigmatic mentor Paha, who believes surfing is elegy: all waves break, and fighting the end only creates suffering. The Kikiloa Chronicles is Erik D. Larson’s emotionally vast, funny, and wild speculative literary debut. The story is carried by Kiki’s unmistakable voice — from the devastating loneliness of her first life to the hard-won wisdom of friendship. Charming and imperfect, she wrestles with love, a force like gravity, alive at the core of a universe destined for darkness.
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