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Lost Souls Meet Under a Full Moon

Mizuki Tsujimura

A suspenseful magical realism novel about a mysterious teenage "go-between" who arranges meetings between the living and the dead, from multimillion-copy Japanese bestselling author Mizuki Tsujimura.

I bring together the living and the departed. I am the go-between.

When a young woman from Tokyo contacts the go-between to request a meeting with a deceased TV star who once helped her, she doesn't expect a teenage boy to show up. Dressed in a designer duffel coat and carrying a tattered notebook, Ayumi Shibuya offers an extraordinary service: he reunites the living with their dearly departed. Meeting his clients at a luxury hotel, Ayumi lays down the ground rules: each reunion is a one-time arrangement that the dead can refuse, the service is entirely free, and the meeting must take place during a full moon. As Ayumi arranges these reunions, we encounter a resentful eldest son who wants to ask his mother to unearth the deeds to a plot of land, a teenage girl who blames herself for her best friend's death, and a weary businessman seeking answers about his fiancée's disappearance days after he proposed.

Already a multimillion-copy bestseller in Japan, Lost Souls Meet Under a Full Moon is storytelling at its finest. Captivating, cozy, and compulsively readable, this is unforgettable page-turner in which the living and the dead are given one last chance for closure.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Scribner Book Company
  • Publish Date: Aug 26th, 2025
  • Pages: 256
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.30in - 5.50in - 0.70in - 0.40lb
  • EAN: 9781668099834
  • Categories: Magical RealismGhostWorld Literature - Japan

About the Author

Tsujimura, Mizuki: - Mizuki Tsujimura is a bestselling Japanese author whose books have sold over 10 million copies, and whose readership continues to grow. Several of her books have been made into high-profile Japanese-language films and/or manga. Loved by booksellers and readers alike, she is the only writer to have won both the Japan Booksellers' award and the more literary Naoki Prize.

Praise for this book

One of BookRiot's "11 Most Sensational New Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books of August"
One of Gizmodo's "80 New Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Books Arriving in August"
One of Ms. Magazine's "Best New August Reads"
An AV Club "10 New Books to read in August"

"Displaying a matter-of-fact approach to the fantastical that recalls early Haruki Murakami, Tsujimura's novel is an enchanting read."
--Financial Times

"Tsujimura raises poignant and powerful questions about what the living owe not only the dead, but each other; and how we make peace with others and ourselves in the wake of overwhelming grief. A touching novel about loss with a magical and mystical flourish."
--Kirkus

"Delightful."
--AV Club

"I devoured this book. I'm amazed by how gentle and warm it is, and at the same time how it holds such fascinating puzzles and hard truths. All the pieces fit together beautifully."
--Megha Majumdar, New York Times bestselling author of A Burning