Water Moon: A Novel by Samantha Sotto Yambao – Trade Paperback – Contemporary

A woman inherits a pawnshop where you can sell your regrets, and then embarks on a magical quest when a charming young physicist wanders into the shop, in this dreamlike and enchanting fantasy novel.

Endlessly inventive . . . A spellbinding journey into a magical Ghibli-esque world.A. Y. Chao, author of Shanghai Immortal

On a backstreet in Tokyo lies a pawnshop, but not everyone can find it. Most will see a cozy ramen restaurant. And only the chosen onesthose who are lostwill find a place to pawn their life choices and deepest regrets.

Hana Ishikawa wakes on her first morning as the pawnshops new owner to find it ransacked, the shops most precious acquisition stolen, and her father missing. And then into the shop stumbles a charming stranger, quite unlike its other customers, for he offers help instead of seeking it.

Together, they must journey through a mystical world to find Hanas father and the stolen choiceby way of rain puddles, rides on paper cranes, the bridge between midnight and morning, and a night market in the clouds.

But as they get closer to the truth, Hana must reveal a secret of her ownand risk making a choice that she will never be able to take back.