The Wayfinder

From the author of The Orphan Master’s Son (winner of the Pulitzer Prize) and Fortune Smiles (winner of the US National Book Award) a mythic masterpiece named one of ‘Ten Best Books of 2025’ by the Wall Street Journaland the Washington Post‘An epic of extraordinary abundance… modern and mythological… wondrous enough to endure’ Wall Street Journal‘Adam Johnson’s awesome new novel… takes place almost a thousand years ago in Polynesia, but its real setting is that realm beyond time and place where mortals contend with gods, and mythology and history merge like twinned tree trunks… This astonishing novel, at once so primeval and so sophisticated, pulses with the same hopes and terrors that first pricked our imaginations around a fire as the sun set - a tapestry of South Pacific myth, archetypal quest, political allegory, environmental jeremiad and feminist revision that feels both ancient and impossibly relevant.’ Washington PostTalking corpses, poetic parrots, and a fan that wafts the bre