The Rogue Wave - coming February 2 2027 from Alfred A. Knopf
“This beautiful literary novel’s most remarkable triumph, though, is the plaintive voice of its unnamed narrator, a young woman quietly searching for her own identity as her family and home – and indeed the world – unravel around her.” —- John Gregory Brown, author of Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery
“Melia di Kodani's debut novel The Rogue Wave is a spare, deeply lyrical beauty. This is the story of a Japanese American family in those treacherous years leading up to and including the Second World War. It is also a lovesong to the magic of California's central coast. Di Kodani has written an explosive historical fiction with the grace of a prose poem.” —- Hannah Lillith Assadi, author of Paradiso 17
A stunning debut chronicling a Japanese family’s life on the windswept coast of central California and the tragedy of their forced removal and incarceration during World War II
A descendant of a pioneering Japanese American family, Melia di Kodani was raised in Carmel, California. She has an MFA from the University of Virginia, where she studied with Deborah Eisenberg. She lives in New York City, and The Rogue Wave is her first novel.