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Catfish Rolling
- Author
- Clara Kumagai
- Narrator
- Susan Momoko-Hingley
- Publisher
- Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish Date
- 17 October 2023
- Run Time
- 9 hours 18 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Sora’s father leads a research team there, and as his colleagues begin to fall ill, he refuses to stop entering the zones himself—even though his memory seems to be deteriorating. Sora, meanwhile, has been secretly conducting her own research on the zones, tracking down a time expert in Tokyo, and surprising herself with a crush on a strikingly confident girl named Maya.
But when Sora’s father disappears, she has no choice but to return home, with Maya in tow, and venture deep into the abandoned time zones to find him and perhaps the catfish itself …
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Details
- Author
- Clara Kumagai
- Narrator
- Susan Momoko-Hingley
- Duration
- 9 hours 18 minutes
- Release Date
- 17 October 2023
- ISBN
- 9798891780156
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Recorded Books, Inc.
- Genre
- Children’s / Teenage fiction: Fantasy, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Magical realism, Children’s / Teenage fiction: General fiction, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Places and peoples
Synopsis
There’s a catfish under Japan, and when it rolls, the land rises and falls. At least, that’s what Sora was told after she lost her mother to an earthquake so powerful that it cracked time itself. Sora and her father are some of the few who still live near one of these “zones”—the places where time has been irrevocably sped up or slowed down.Sora’s father leads a research team there, and as his colleagues begin to fall ill, he refuses to stop entering the zones himself—even though his memory seems to be deteriorating. Sora, meanwhile, has been secretly conducting her own research on the zones, tracking down a time expert in Tokyo, and surprising herself with a crush on a strikingly confident girl named Maya.But when Sora’s father disappears, she has no choice but to return home, with Maya in tow, and venture deep into the abandoned time zones to find him and perhaps the catfish itself …
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