Abstract

Moeka is supposed to be taken in by relatives after losing her parents. Yurie is running away from her abusive husband. They both disembark at a train at a station up north, but their fates change when a huge earthquake and tsunami strike. _ e pair are lost for words when asked to identify themselves at the evacuation shelter, but a mysterious old lady gives them a hand… This book is a fantasy themed around the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami featuring three women who end up living together as a kind of family. Winner of the 54th Noma Prize for Juvenile Literature.

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