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WINNER OF THE 2024 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE May 1938. The young novelist Aoyama Chizuko has sailed from her home in Nagasaki, Japan, and arrived in Taiwan. She's been invited there by the Japanese government ruling the island, though she has no interest in their official...

Christmas is tough when your parents are divorced, but Corey has a plan to bring everyone the merriest Christmas ever. It's the first Christmas since her parents got divorced, and the only present she wants this year is for them to get back together. To make matters worse, Corey's mom has been spending a lot of time with Mr. Lee.

The Pony Tails—Corey, May, and Jasmine—are planning a big party for Halloween, and Corey can't wait to host it. But in the days leading up to the event, Corey's pony Samurai starts acting strange. Samurai seems to get spooked whenever he is around a pony named Midnight—a gray who, according to some, could be bad luck. With black cats crossing their paths and the weather report calling for a big thunderstorm on the big night, the Pony Tails wonder if there's any truth to superstition.

Corey, May, and Jasmine are all nervous about performing at the County Animal Rescue League fundraiser—it's for an important cause, and the audience will be huge. Corey has worked hard to get her pony, Samurai, ready for the demonstration—but when it's showtime, Samurai just won't seem to cooperate.

When Corey's mom starts dating, Corey feels like her world is falling apart—can her best friends help? Corey's parents are divorced, and her mom, Doc Tock, has started seeing a man with a daughter named Alice, who is Corey's age. But the two girls don't have a thing in common. Alice doesn't even like animals! She's nothing like Corey's Pony Tails pals.

When Corey goes to visit her father for a few days, May and Jasmine promise to keep an eye on her pony. Corey hates to leave Samurai behind, but she knows that no one could take better care of Sam than her two pony-crazy friends in the Pony Tails. Then, shortly after Corey leaves, Sam disappears from his stall. What has happened to Corey's pony? And how could May and Jasmine have let Sam get away?

Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar for twenty-first-century Japan, a young woman suffering from depression embarks on a series of darkly comic domestic disasters that lead her to question whether she is worthy of love Twenty-five-year-old Yasuko has been living with her kind but apathetic boyfriend...