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Songs for ghosts
Kumagai, Clara2025
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A novel full of longing, love and heartbreak, inspired by Puccini's Madame Butterfly. Japanese-American 17-year-old Adam has just broken up with his boyfriend Evan and is not looking forward to the excruciating awkwardness at school for the rest of term or a whole summer stuck at home with his dad, step mum and baby brother, Benji. But then Adam discovers a diary in some boxes in the attic and is quickly enthralled by their poignant story. They were written by a young woman in Nagasaki in 1911. Adam is enraptured by her life and loves, becoming totally absorbed in her story. Then he starts to be haunted by her ghostly presence.
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Main title:
Songs for ghosts / Clara Kumagai.
Author:
Kumagai, Clara, author
Work:
Edition:
First.
Imprint:
London : Zephyr, 2025.
Collation:
445 p. : 224 x 142 mm. 568 gm.
Audience:
Teenage.Reading grade level: 10-12.Interest age level: 11-14.Interest grade level: KS3 KS4.
Biography/History:
Clara Kumagai is from Canada, Japan and Ireland. Her fiction and non-fiction for children and adults has been published in The Stinging Fly, the Irish Times, Banshee, Room, the Kyoto Journal and Cicada, among others. She is a recipient of a We Need Diverse Books Mentorship, and was a finalist for the 2020 Jim Wong-Chu Emerging Writers Award. Catfish Rolling is her debut novel. clarakumagai.com Twitter/Instagram: @clarakiyoko.
ISBN:
9781803288086 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
YA
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
867806