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Clara Kumagai
@clarakiyoko.bsky.social
630 followers 260 following 150 posts
From Ireland, Japan and Canada
Author of CATFISH ROLLING🌊
SONGS FOR GHOSTS out 2025 👻
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SONGS FOR GHOSTS is out in two weeks in Canada and three weeks in the US! And here is a ✨starred✨ review from Kirkus to usher it across the Atlantic! 💙📚
Graphic with a background of the night sky with clouds and stars at the top. Below this reads ‘STARRED REVIEW’. On the left is an image of the US/Cdn cover of SONGS FOR GHOSTS. To the right is text that reads: “Kumagai’s sophomore novel is an exciting blend of paranormal, mystery, and romance elements. The past and present are entwined and parallel one another in this beautifully emotional story of love, betrayal, heartbreak, death, and family. A thrilling and creative story of growth.” - Kirkus Reviews Below is text which reads: Out in Canada Aug. 5th Out in the US Aug. 12th
July 22, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Currently reading: The Dark Becomes Her by Judy I. Lin 💙📚
Copy of The Dark Becomes Her by Judy I.Lin on a wooden table
July 21, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Currently reading: Young Hag by Isabel Greenberg. Photo taken during that happy time when it wasn’t lashing rain
Copy of Young Hag by Isabel Greenberg among green grass that needs a mowing
July 17, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Currently reading: The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
A copy of The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith on a dark wooden table. The cover is red with a dark silhouette of a man’s upper body. Within it is the figure of a man walking through a doorway.
July 14, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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Currently reading: The One Hundred Nights of Hero by Isabel Greenberg
Copy of The One Hundred Nights of Hero by Isabel Greenberg on a wooden table. Cover illustration is two women reaching hands to each other and between them in the distance is a ship.
July 10, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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Currently reading: The Phoenix Pencil Company by Allison King (out July 31st!) 📚💙
Copy of The Phoenix Pencil Company by Allison King on a wooden table
July 5, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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If you’re in Dublin then why not pop by the Holy Show launch party?
I’m DJing! Come and find out what I’ll play because after weeks of intense thought I still don’t know
Poster for Holy Show issue #07 launch 27 June 6-8pm MoLi Launching: Seán Hillen Reading: David McGovern DJ-ing: Nicole Flattery, Clara Kumagai, Jess Raymon, Eoin Rogers, Ishmael Claxton and more
June 27, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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Currently reading: Solo by Gráinne O’Brien 💙📚
Copy of Solo by Gráinne O’Brien on a wooden table
June 14, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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Currently reading: Little Bang by Kelly McCaughrain 💙📚
Copy of Little Bang by Kelly McCaughrain on a wooden table
June 12, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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Currently reading: On the Calculation of Volume by Solvej Balle 💙📚
A copy of On the Calculation of Volume by Solvej Balle on a wooden table
June 9, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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Currently reading: Under the Eye of the Big Bird by Hiromi Kawakami
Copy of Under the Eye of the Big Bird by Hiromi Kawakami on a wooden table
June 1, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Last night’s fit
Clara taking a mirror selfie wearing a red and black check kimono with a silver and black star patterned obi
May 29, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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Co-ord for this evening’s event at Waterstones Covent Garden 👘
Red and black checked kimono with a silver and black obi patterned with stars
May 28, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Rainy day at @hayfestival.bsky.social but it’s actual very atmospheric for my kimono and for telling ghost stories
Clara taking a mirror selfie wearing a red and black checked kimono and an obi printed with a skeleton ukiyo-e
May 27, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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My kimono co-ord for my event at @hayfestival.bsky.social tomorrow! Excited to wear my skeleton obi and talk about ghost stories 👻
Folded red and black checked kimono with an obi depicting a horror ukiyo-e of a skeleton
May 26, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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Currently reading: Call Me Ishmaelle by Xiaolu Guo 📚💙
Copy of Call Me Ishamelle by Xiaolu Guo on a wooden table
May 24, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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Currently reading: Open, Heaven by Seán Hewitt
Copy of Open, Heaven by Seán Hewitt sunbathing on overgrown grass
May 18, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Currently reading: Aimée de Jongh’s graphic novel adaptation of Lord of the Flies
Copy of Aimée de Jongh’s graphic novel adaptation of Lord of the Flies on a wooden table
May 12, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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Currently reading: Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Cover of Moby Dick by Herman Melville on a wooden table
May 4, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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I believe it is exactly the right moment to start this book. Currently reading: A Last Supper of Queer Apostles by Pedro Lemebel
A copy of A Last Supper of Queer Apostles by Pedro Lemebel on a wooden table
April 20, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Currently reading: Fair Play by Louise Hegarty
Cover of Fair Play by Louise Hegarty on a wooden table
April 16, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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Currently reading: Huda F Are You? by Huda Fahmy 💙📚
Copy of Huda F Are You? by Huda Fahmy on a wooden table
April 2, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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London! I will be doing an event at Waterstones Covent Garden on May 28th 👻 I’ll be talking to Mina Ikemoto Ghosh and it will be GREAT 💙📚
March 26, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Currently reading: Unearthing by Kyo Maclear
Copy of Kyo Maclear’s memoir Unearthing on a wooden table
March 26, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Currently reading: The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley 💙📚
Copy of The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley on a wooden table
March 21, 2025 at 2:03 PM