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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
CLARA KUMAGAI is from Canada, Japan and Ireland. The recipient of a We Need Diverse Books Award Mentorship, Clara was also a finalist for the Jim Wong-Chu Emerging Writers Award, a Yoto Carnegie 2024 nominee and shortlisted for the KPMG Children's Book Ireland Award. Clara has been chosen by The Irish Independent as a Top 20 Irish Kid's Book of 2023, as well as a Best Book of 2023 by The Irish Times, the Observer and Waterstones. She is the author of Catfish Rolling.
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

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

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