Catfish Rolling

Clara Kumagai

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Head of Zeus
28 February 2023

Fantasy & magical realism (Children's&YA); Traditional stories (Children's&YA); Romance & relationships stories (Children's&YA); Personal & social issues: racism & multiculturalism (Children's&YA); Fantasy

A dazzling debut for 12+ readers. 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 abandoned places where time runs faster or slower than normal. Sora is sensitive to these shifts, and her father recruits her help in exploring these liminal spaces.

But it's dangerous there – and as she strays further inside in search of her mother, she finds that time distorts, memories fracture and shadows, a glimmer of things not entirely human, linger. After Sora's father goes missing, she has no choice but to venture into uncharted spaces within the time zones to find him, her mother and perhaps even the catfish itself...

Stylish, accomplished and thought-provoking story-telling explores themes of identity, philosophy, science, ecology, life, loss and love.

By: Clara Kumagai
Imprint: Head of Zeus
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: ANZ Only
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm,
ISBN: 9781804544600
ISBN 10: 1804544604
Pages: 432
Publication Date: 28 February 2023
Recommended Age: From 14 years
Audience: Young adult , Preschool (0-5)
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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. @clarakiyoko clarakumagai.com

Reviews for Catfish Rolling

'Excellent, evocative and thoughtful with genuine depth... I feel as if I'm in the hands of a writer who knows what she's doing' -- Nicola Yoon, bestselling author of Everything, Everything