Water Moon by Samantha Sotto Yambao
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 fantasy novel.
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 ones—those who are lost—will find a place to pawn their life choices and deepest regrets.
Hana Ishikawa wakes on her first morning as the pawnshop’s new owner to find it ransacked, the shop’s 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 Hana’s father and the stolen choice—by 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 own—and risk making a choice that she will never be able to take back.
- File Name:water-moon-by-samantha-sotto-yambao.epub
- Original Title:Water Moon
- Creator:Samantha Sotto Yambao
- Language:en-US
- Identifier:9780593725009
- Publisher:Random House Worlds
- Date:2025-01-14
- File Size:2.778 MB
Table of Content
- 1. Cover
- 2. By Samantha Sotto Yambao
- 3. Title Page
- 4. Copyright
- 5. Contents
- 6. Dedication
- 7. Part One
- Chapter One: The Pawnshop of Almosts and Ifs
- Chapter Two: Ishikawa Toshio’s Last Client
- Chapter Three: Bus Fare
- Chapter Four: Sake and Silence
- Chapter Five: The Vault
- Chapter Six: Takeda Izumi’s Choice
- Chapter Seven: Rule Number Two
- Chapter Eight: Lies
- Chapter Nine: Heads
- Chapter Ten: Tails and Tea Boxes
- Chapter Eleven: The God on the Shelf
- Chapter Twelve: The Easiest of Experiments
- Chapter Thirteen: Whispers and Wax
- Chapter Fourteen: Skin and Ink
- Chapter Fifteen: Consent
- 8. Part Two
- Chapter Sixteen: Payment
- Chapter Seventeen: The Gift
- Chapter Eighteen: The Truth Well Told
- Chapter Nineteen: The Teahouse at Midnight
- Chapter Twenty: Trips and Trains
- Chapter Twenty-One: The Sky, the Sea, and a Song
- Chapter Twenty-Two: Rooms
- Chapter Twenty-Three: Sand
- Chapter Twenty-Four: The Museum of Education
- Chapter Twenty-Five: Paper
- Chapter Twenty-Six: The Favor
- Chapter Twenty-Seven: Duty and Debt
- Chapter Twenty-Eight: Safe. Far. Secret.
- 9. Part Three
- Chapter Twenty-Nine: Spicy Pork or Chicken?
- Chapter Thirty: Ina May’s Guide to Childbirth
- Chapter Thirty-One: The Message
- Chapter Thirty-Two: The Valley of Stars
- Chapter Thirty-Three: The Trial and Sentencing of Ishikawa Chiyo
- Chapter Thirty-Four: Family
- Chapter Thirty-Five: Among the Stars
- Chapter Thirty-Six: Tuna Casserole, a Blue Tie, and a Stranger in a Box
- Chapter Thirty-Seven: A Punishment to Fit the Crime
- Chapter Thirty-Eight: The Lights in the Lake
- Chapter Thirty-Nine: An Infestation of Ticks
- Chapter Forty: Ghosts
- Chapter Forty-One: Endings
- Chapter Forty-Two: The Night Market
- Chapter Forty-Three: Stall Five Hundred and Ten
- Chapter Forty-Four: The Library of the Lost
- Chapter Forty-Five: The Third Bottle of Sake
- Chapter Forty-Six: The Rumor About a Man Named Minatozaki Keishin
- Chapter Forty-Seven: Beneath the Wildflowers
- Chapter Forty-Eight: They Looked Like Children
- Chapter Forty-Nine: Hide and Seek
- Chapter Fifty: A Good Daughter
- Chapter Fifty-One: Souls and Skin
- Chapter Fifty-Two: A Reunion
- Chapter Fifty-Three: A Bird and a Bus
- Chapter Fifty-Four: The Reflection in the Mirror
- Chapter Fifty-Five: Hana’s Choice
- 10. Part Four
- Chapter Fifty-Six: A Gathering of Cranes
- Chapter Fifty-Seven: The Choice Ishikawa Chiyo Stole
- Chapter Fifty-Eight: A Choice Named Hana
- Chapter Fifty-Nine: A Thousand Water Moons
- Chapter Sixty: One Year Later
- Chapter Sixty-One: The Last Bowl of Ramen
- Chapter Sixty-Two: Five Years Later
- 11. Acknowledgments
- 12. About the Author
Samantha Sotto Yambao
