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T Kira Madden is a Chinese, Kanaka Maoli writer, photographer, and amateur magician living in Charleston, SC. Her debut memoir, LONG LIVE THE TRIBE OF FATHERLESS GIRLS, was a New York Times Editors' Choice selection, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize, a finalist for the LAMBDA Literary Award for lesbian memoir, and is now in development as a feature film.
'It is not enough to say that Whidbey is a masterpiece or T Kira Madden is a genius - it is, she is. But how lucky we are to have such a radically empathetic novel about pain and justice. Whidbey is an exceptional and staggering gift' CARMEN MARIA MACHADO, author of In the Dream House and Her Body and Other Parties 'Epic in its scope, intimate in its evocation, Whidbey reads like a thriller, compels like a mystery and regarding the human condition, converses with the classics. This is the book everyone will be talking about' ADAM JOHNSON, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Orphan Master's Son 'Reading Whidbey feels like witnessing a cosmic, unlikely happening, like the planets aligning. This book will break you open. Whidbey is a Masterwork' NANA KWAME ADJEI-BRENYAH, New York Times bestselling author of Chain-Gang All Stars 'Madden holds nothing back in Whidbey. In the realm of Patricia Highsmith and Gone Girl lives Whidbey, an extraordinary masterpiece' CHELSEA BIEKER, author of Madwoman 'Whidbey is the book I've been praying for. T Kira Mahealani Madden is undoubtedly one of our greatest contemporary writers' KRISTIN ARNETT, author of Mostly Dead Things 'To read T Kira Madden is to feel your insides endlessly shifting, between barbed and rage-simmering to amused and serene. I would follow T Kira anywhere' CHANEL MILLER, author of Know My Name
