Water Moon: A Novel

"It’s all about a back street in Tokyo, where there’s a pawn shop. Most people won’t see it; they’ll see a ramen or noodle shop. But one or two people who are selected—and don’t even know they’re looking for it—will see this pawn shop. It’s where you go and pawn your life choices and your deepest regrets. Unlike normal pawnshops, you can’t buy them back. You think pawning your regrets is going to change your life for the better, but the book is fundamentally a journey about how those regrets are what build you. If you did sell them, where would you be now? So although it’s fantasy, it makes you think. And it most definitely is fantasy . It takes you to this magical world that my brain certainly wouldn’t be able to think up. You’re in a night market up in the clouds, making worlds out of papier-mâché. You’re jumping through puddles; the water is a portal into different worlds. It’s just magical. The book absolutely takes you away from where you are, into a world that you know doesn’t exist. Like the other books, you experience the thrill without the peril. It’s comfortable and enjoyable to read, and another page-turner. You just want to know more and more about it, this place, and this topic that you wouldn’t normally think about. The books cover the globe, and it’s not just geographic distance. It could be a distant time, too. It’s a real time or a real place that is distant. It all combines to be something that isn’t something you would normally expose yourself to. Therefore, for every one of us, no matter who we are, it’s an adventure to go on that voyage of discovery."