Catfish Rolling

In "Catfish Rolling," debut author Clara Kumagai crafts a mind-bending YA novel that explores themes of memory and family against the backdrop of a tumultuous earthquake that disrupts time. After losing her mother, Sora navigates a world where time behaves erratically near the "zones," while her father leads a research team studying their effects—despite his declining health and strange behavior. As Sora delves into her own research and develops a connection with a confident girl named Maya, she embarks on a desperate quest into the abandoned time zones when her father goes missing.