Water Moon

Water Moon

Author: Samantha Sotto Yambao Listening Length: 9h 40m
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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...

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Chapter Thirty-six

Tuna Casserole, a Blue Tie, and a Stranger in a Box

If he had passed away in Japan, he would have been dressed in white. But Keishin’s father had died thousands of miles from his old home, and in this place, the dead wore suits that made them look as though they were dressed for a job interview.

Keishin’s father had never worn a suit in his life, and his stepmother had spent hours at the sales rack trying to choose between a gray suit with a black tie or a pinstripe suit with a blue one. If she had asked for Keishin’s opinion, he would have told her that it didn’t matter. The man in the coffin was going to look like a stranger either way. Cancer had made a feast of his father, gnawing at him until all that was left was skin and bones. His stepmother finally selected the pinstripe and blue tie option when the sales clerk told her that it was an additional 20 percent off. The other thing that appeared to be on sale that week was tuna. After the fourth tuna casserole from one of their neighbors had been squeezed into the refrigerator, Keishin was almost certain that by the end of the week, he was going to sprout gills.