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Songs for Ghosts

Clara Kumagai
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Songs for Ghosts

Clara Kumagai
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  • Published date: Aug 05, 2025
  • Language: English
  • No. of Pages: 400
  • Publisher: Tundra Book Group
  • ISBN: 9781774882818
  • Dimensions: 5.56" W x 1.1" L x 8.31" H
A Kirkus Reviews Best Young Adult Book of the Year, 2025
A Booklist Editors' Choice, Books for Youth, 2025
One of CBC Books' Best Canadian Children's Books of 2025
A Canadian Children’s Book Centre's Best Book for Kids & Teens, Spring 2026 — Starred Selection
A 2026 Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year
Shortlisted for the 2026 Amy Mathers Teen Book Award

PRAISE FOR Songs for Ghosts:

"Kumagai’s sophomore novel is an exciting blend of paranormal, mystery, and romance elements. The past and present are entwined and parallel one another in this beautifully emotional story of love, betrayal, heartbreak, death, and family. . . . A thrilling and creative story of growth." —STARRED REVIEW, Kirkus Reviews

"Lyrical and haunting, Kumagai’s ghostly tale of love and identity is a testament to the healing power of story and its capacity to bridge divides between cultures and generations. Based on Giacomo Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, this is an act of reclamation, telling the story from the perspective of the opera’s most marginalized character and illuminating often overlooked aspects of Japanese life in the early twentieth century. A beautiful and necessary work." —STARRED REVIEW, Booklist

"Even with all these distinct storylines and plot elements, Clara Kumagai is subtle and elegant in wrapping them together across time and place, and bringing Adam and the diary writer as well as other characters to merge in a satisfying and redemptive way. As such, readers as well as the ghosts who want to be remembered are appeased." —CanLit for LittleCanadians

"Woven between two timelines, Kumagai draws readers into a compelling world of mystery and memories that refuse to be forgotten. At once haunting and tender, this is a book I'll hold close for a very long time." —Sarah Suk, award-winning author of The Space Between Here & Now and Meet Me at Blue Hour
CLARA KUMAGAI is from Canada, Japan and Ireland. She is a writer of fiction and nonfiction for both adults and young people. Her debut YA novel, Catfish Rolling, was named as a Best Book of 2023 by The Irish Times, the Observer and Waterstones. Catfish Rolling was nominated for the YOTO Carnegie Award and received the 2024 KPMG Children’s Books Ireland Book of the Year Award. Her second YA novel, Songs for Ghosts, was published in 2025, and received starred reviews from Booklist and Kirkus. It was named one of the Best Irish Books of 2025 by Children’s Books Ireland, and one of the Best Canadian Books of 2025. It has been nominated for the 2026 YOTO Carnegie Award and the White Pine Award. Clara lives and writes in Ireland.

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