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Catfish Rolling

By: Clara Kumagai
Narrated by: Susan Momoko-Hingley
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2024 KPMG Children’s Books Ireland Award, Winner
2024 Snow Willow Award, Short-listed
2024 The Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence - Best Juvenile or YA Crime Book, Nominated

A debut young adult coming-of-age book with magic realism elements, Catfish Rolling is perfect for fans of Studio Ghibli films and Laura Ruby's Bone Gap.

There's a catfish under Japan, and when it rolls, the land rises and falls. At least, that's what Sora was told after she lost her mother to an earthquake so powerful that it cracked time itself. Sora and her father are some of the few who still live near the most powerful of these "zones"—the places where time has been irrevocably sped up, or slowed down.

When high school ends, and her best friend leaves for university, Sora finds herself stuck and increasingly alone. She begins secretly conducting her own research, tracking down a time expert in Tokyo. She also feels increasingly conflicted in her quasi-romantic feelings for her best friend—and for the time expert's assistant, a striking and confident girl named Maya, another hafu (half-Japanese, half-non) girl with whom Sora forms an instant bond.

But when Sora's father disappears, she has no choice but to return home and venture deep into the abandoned time zones to find him, and perhaps the catfish itself . . .

©2023 Clara Kumagai (P)2023 Penguin Teen Canada
Coming of Age Dystopian Fantasy Fiction Magical Realism Science Fiction Young Adult
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One of The Guardian's Best Children's and YA Books of 2023

"Clara Kumagai has provided her audience with an engaging and interesting story which also probes the depths of human emotions. We can hope that this debut novel is the first of many more novels to come." —STARRED REVIEW, CM: Canadian Review of Materials

"One of the year's most memorable debuts . . . an original and ambitious coming of age novel told against the rich backdrop of Japanese folklore and culture." —The Guardian

"Excellent, evocative, and thoughtful, with genuine depth." —Nicola Yoon, #1 New York Times bestselling author

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