In a world where we are allowed choices, there will always be regrets.
Would you rather avoid the regrets and live where fate has decided your entire life? Or find a way to eliminate the regrets your choices have led to.
On a back street in Tokyo, there is an unassuming ramen restaurant. But occasionally, a person - a chosen one - will open that door and walk into a very special pawn shop instead, a shop where you can pawn your regrets and life choices.
Hana Ishikawa's life was arranged from the moment she was born. Now she has just inherited her family's pawn shop from her father, but on her first day as owner she wakes up to find the shop ransacked, and her father missing, along with a precious artifact.
Expecting ramen, Keishin steps into the ransacked shop and soon offers his help to find her father and the artifact. Knowing he is from the outside world, Hana tries to dissuade him, but he is on his own journey of self-discovery and recognizes this as a chance for something new. Together, they wind through the fantastical world that Hana lives in, to find her father and return the artifact, and learn more about themselves than they could imagine.
The prose and writing style of Samantha Sotto Yambao is stunningly beautiful, unlike anything I have ever read. Is it possible to find your favorite book of the year in January? Because I think I may have. I will never look at choices - or how I use time - again the same way.
Publishing date: January 14, 2025
Thank you to NetGalley, Random House Publishing Group - Ballantine/ Del Ray, and the author for the advance copy in exchange for an honest review.
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