Cindy Kay sweeps listeners away into Samantha Sotto Yambao’s memorable and otherworldly story. Host Jo Reed and AudioFile’s Emily Connelly discuss an audiobook full of magic and adventure. On the day Hana is due to inherit her family’s pawn shop, where people from our world can trade away their greatest choices and regrets, she wakes to find it ransacked, her father missing—and one of their precious choices gone. Kay’s narration balances this story that alternates between dreamy and thrilling, carrying listeners on a great adventure. Hana seeks out her father alongside Kei, a scientist, who discovers that Hana’s world is full of beautiful magic and mystery but there’s grave danger, too.

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