Songs for Ghosts with Clara Kumagai
Clara Kumagai
Edinburgh Futures Institute
24 Aug
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Clara Kumagai made her mark on the YA scene last year with the popular Catfish Rolling, a Yoto Carnegie Medal nominee. Now she’s back, with a beautiful tale of identity, heritage, and memory, Songs for Ghosts, inspired by Puccini’s Madame Butterfly. A hundred years separate Japanese-American teenager Adam and a young Japanese woman who are caught between cultures, relationships, and heartbreak. Clara will share this contemporary ghost story today with Alice Tarbuck.