A 2024 Mildred L. Batchelder Award HonoreeA 2024 USBBY Outstanding International BookOne of Kirkus Reviews 10 Essential MiddleGrade Books for Fall 2023 Starred ReviewOne of Kirkus Reviews Best MiddleGrade Family Stories of 2023A 2023 Cybils Awards Finalist for Speculative Middle Grade FictionFrom the author and translator of the Batchelder Awardwinning novel Temple Alley Summer comes the moving story of three generations of women adapting to their new home and its mythical inhabitants in the tragic aftermath of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake disaster.In the wake of a devastating earthquake and tsunami Yui fleeing her violent husband and Hiyori a young orphan are taken in by a strange but kind old lady named Kiwa in the small town of Kitsunezaki. The newly formed family finds refuge in a mayoiga a lost house perched atop a beautiful cape overlooking the sea.