Festival of ShadowsOliver Pichard Cecile Brun Atelier SentoLabel: Tuttle PublishingDescription: **A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection**Recommended by the New York Public Library among its list of '50 Best New Comics for Adults' in 2023What happens when the living risk their lives to save the souls of the dead?Every summer in an isolated Japanese village a celebration known as the Festival of Shadows takes place. The villagers are entrusted to assist the troubled souls or shadows of those who died tragically and to help them come to terms with their deaths and find eternal peace.Naoko a young girl born in the village is given a year to save the soul of a mysterious young man. She develops strong feelings for her shadow—a handsome young man an artist—but he seems haunted by a terrible secret. She has a year to find out what happened to him to help him come to terms with his past and if she fails his soul will be lost forever…As the year goes by Naoko finds herself teetering between the worlds of the living and the dead. What is the terrible secret that seems to be haunting her shadow? And could she be risking her own life to help someone who has already lost his?Naoko puts her own life on the line to save the soul of this man she loves in an exciting moving and beautifully drawn story that takes the reader on a journey from the beautiful Japanese countryside to glamorous Tokyo art world.
