Clara Kumagai: Catfish Rolling [2023] hardback Condition:New Irish Times' Books of the

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Hanako-kun-and what better way to do that than school mystery number five

Clara Kumagai: Catfish Rolling [2023] hardback Condition:New Irish Times' Books of theA dazzling debut. Magic realism blends with Japanese myth and legend in an original story about grief, memory, time and an earthquake that shook a nation. There's a catfish under the islands of Japan and when it rolls the land rises and falls. Sora hates the catfish whose rolling caused an earthquake so powerful it cracked time itself. It destroyed her home and took her mother. Now Sora and her scientist father live close to the zones the wild and